STAP-PREP(1)

💖 STAP-PREP(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, so stap-prep is that girl. she gets your system ready for systemtap and she does NOT play around 💅

✨ NAME ✨

stap-prep — prepare system for systemtap use 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

stap-prep [ KERNEL_VERSION ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the stap-prep executable is literally the pre-game ritual for systemtap. it prepares the system for systemtap use by installing the kernel headers, the debug symbols, and the build tools — and not just any ones, bestie, the ones that match the kernel you're currently running. or, if you're feeling spicy, the kernel version you optionally hand over as KERNEL_VERSION ✨

now here's the tea 🍓: if the debuginfod-find tool is installed and it can fetch debuginfo for a kernel component, then it's assumed that debuginfo is gonna stay available later. and in that case? no debug symbols get downloaded during stap-prep. it's giving efficiency, it's giving "we already have it at home" 😭👑

also important: the exact behavior of stap-prep can be customized by the distribution maintainers 👀 it might, for example, only give suggestions and not actually install the required packages — y'know, if that's hard to automate. so like, don't be shocked if it just... tells you things instead of doing them. vibe check accordingly 🙈

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

$ stap-prep
Please install linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64-dbg

see? she said what she said 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• http://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html
• stap(1)

💜 BUGS 💜

found a bug? use the Bugzilla link of the project web page, or slide into our mailing list 🫶

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/, <systemtap@sourceware.org>

no cap, that's the whole page. every flag, every path, every link — all accounted for 💖

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this one lives in the General Commands Manual section as stap-prep(1) — go forth and prep your kernel, you icon 👑✨