How to Install and Uninstall libbpf-tools Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "libbpf-tools" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libbpf-tools on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libbpf-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libbpf-tools" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libbpf-tools on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libbpf-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libbpf-tools package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: libbpf-tools
Source: bpfcc
Version: 0.22.0+ds-2~bpo11+1
Installed-Size: 10566
Maintainer: Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.22), libelf1 (>= 0.144), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3)
Description-en: tools for BPF Compiler Collection based on libbpf (BTF and CO-RE)
BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) is a toolkit for creating efficient
kernel tracing and manipulation programs
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It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Package Filter) and provides tools
for BPF based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring and more
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This package provides the tools from bpfcc-tools but written in a portable
fashion using BTF and libbpf hence the installation footprint will be smaller
compared to bpfcc-tools.
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At this time this package contains subset of tools from bpfcc-tools
Description-md5: c85dbff67cbfd96344b320a762f7aa39
Homepage: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bpfcc/libbpf-tools_0.22.0+ds-2~bpo11+1_amd64.deb
Size: 796712
SHA256: b300680748d64d625b898bf078ee057ec05615862dd1985355bf353b32845a42