How To Install systemtap on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is systemtap
systemtap is:
SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the tedious and disruptive instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence that may be otherwise required to collect data.
SystemTap provides a simple command line interface and scripting language for writing instrumentation for a live running system.
There are three methods to install systemtap on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install systemtap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systemtap
Install systemtap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systemtap
Install systemtap Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systemtap
How To Uninstall systemtap on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the systemtap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systemtap
Uninstall systemtap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systemtap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemtap
Remove systemtap Configurations and Data
To remove systemtap configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systemtap
Remove systemtap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove systemtap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systemtap
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
