Information about the package, systemtap, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The systemtap package is designed for, Programmable system-wide instrumentation system.
Package Name:
systemtap
Summary:
Programmable system-wide instrumentation system
Description:
SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux. Developers can write instrumentation scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. The base systemtap package contains/requires the components needed to locally develop and execute systemtap scripts.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.9
Release:
7.el6
Size:
23 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the systemtap package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install systemtap
This command will install systemtap on the server.
yum remove systemtap
This command will un-install systemtap on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove systemtap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove systemtap
This command will un-install systemtap on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove systemtap when using the -y flag.
yum update systemtap
This command will update systemtap to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove systemtap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update systemtap
This command will update systemtap to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove systemtap when using the -y flag.
yum info systemtap
This command will show you core information about the systemtap package.
yum deplist systemtap
This command will show you the dependencies for systemtap. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update systemtap
This command will check if there is an update waiting on systemtap. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.