Information about the package, systemtap-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The systemtap-devel package is designed for, Programmable system-wide instrumentation system - development.
Package Name:
systemtap-devel
Summary:
Programmable system-wide instrumentation system - development
Description:
This package contains the components needed to compile a systemtap script from source form into executable (.ko) forms. It may be installed on a self-contained developer workstation (along with the systemtap-client and systemtap-runtime packages), or on a dedicated remote server (alongside the systemtap-server package). It includes a copy of the standard tapset library and the runtime library C files.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.9
Release:
7.el6
Size:
1.7 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the systemtap-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install systemtap-devel
This command will install systemtap-devel on the server.
yum remove systemtap-devel
This command will un-install systemtap-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove systemtap-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove systemtap-devel
This command will un-install systemtap-devel 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-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update systemtap-devel
This command will update systemtap-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove systemtap-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update systemtap-devel
This command will update systemtap-devel 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-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info systemtap-devel
This command will show you core information about the systemtap-devel package.
yum deplist systemtap-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for systemtap-devel. 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-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on systemtap-devel. 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.