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Installing BCC and bpftrace from source on Ubuntu 18.04.md

Steps to install BCC and bpftrace from source on Ubuntu 18.04.

BCC

Install build dependencies

sudo apt-get -y install bison build-essential cmake flex git libedit-dev \
  libllvm6.0 llvm-6.0-dev libclang-6.0-dev python zlib1g-dev libelf-dev \
  iperf3 luajit libluajit-5.1-dev netperf linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Compile and install BCC

git clone https://github.com/iovisor/bcc.git
mkdir bcc/build; cd bcc/build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make -j16
sudo make install

bpftrace

Install build dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y bison cmake flex g++ git libelf-dev zlib1g-dev libfl-dev systemtap-sdt-dev binutils-dev \
  llvm-7-dev llvm-7-runtime libclang-7-dev clang-7

Compile and install bpftrace

git clone https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
mkdir bpftrace/build; cd bpftrace/build;
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make -j16
sudo make install
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