How to Install and Uninstall bpftrace Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

You can also install and uninstall the bpftrace on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "bpftrace" package

Please follow the guidance below to install bpftrace on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bpftrace
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bpftrace" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall bpftrace on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bpftrace package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: bpftrace
Version: 0.17.0-1
Installed-Size: 3887
Maintainer: Vincent Bernat
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbpf1 (>= 1:0.6.0), libbpfcc (>= 0.25.0+ds), libc6 (>= 2.34), libclang1-14 (>= 1:9~svn359771-1~), libdw1 (>= 0.161), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libllvm14, libstdc++6 (>= 11)
Description: high-level tracing language for Linux eBPF
Description-md5: 77220d45de965013d79717740b8659e5
Homepage: https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bpftrace/bpftrace_0.17.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 936508
MD5sum: f13d3bc0d78d58405d671276e8f3cc76
SHA256: 3069968632fdded9f6833881f248aa96fcaef9677c9ec37e592f5e3636afccb8