BPFtrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter available in recent Linux kernels. BPFtrace uses LLVM as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode and makes use of BCC for interacting with the Linux BPF system, as well as existing Linux tracing capabilities: kernel dynamic tracing, user-level dynamic tracing and tracepoints.
Install from the command line using:
sudo snap install bpftrace
sudo snap connect bpftrace:system-trace
For more information, visit:
https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/docs/reference_guide.md https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/docs/tutorial_one_liners.md
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Linux Mint 18.2 (Sonya), Linux Mint 18.3 (Sylvia), and the latest releases, Linux Mint 19 (Tara), Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa), Linux Mint 19.2 (Tina) and Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia). You can find out which version of Linux Mint you’re running by opening System info from the Preferences menu. To install snap from the Software Manager application, search for snapd and click Install.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either restart your machine, or log out and in again, to complete the installation.
To install bpftrace, simply use the following command:
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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