How to Install and Uninstall systemtap-common Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: February 16,2025

1. Install "systemtap-common" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install systemtap-common on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                systemtap-common
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "systemtap-common" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall systemtap-common on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                systemtap-common
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the systemtap-common package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: systemtap-common
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 3250
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Architecture: all
Source: systemtap
Version: 2.9-2ubuntu2
Replaces: systemtap (<< 0.0.20081220-1), systemtap-grapher (<< 2.1-1~experimental1~try1)
Recommends: systemtap
Breaks: systemtap (<< 0.0.20081220-1), systemtap-grapher (<< 2.1-1~experimental1~try1)
Filename: pool/universe/s/systemtap/systemtap-common_2.9-2ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 451064
MD5sum: bfadeffd9b1484b69646311684f1fa99
SHA1: d502ca4a182662fe7f45e6e373e0205b3217dfb1
SHA256: 5b1cdbe4f1919e015c1bb589519ea51f6004d154202d65b7c720f60b2b03d84b
Description-en: instrumentation system for Linux (common component)
SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of
information about the running Linux system.
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To be able to write new SystemTap probes, install systemtap package.
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This package contains the common files
Description-md5: c5d2c140f32e968c63c24e4c6a3b1c4b
Homepage: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu