pidpersec.bt command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

pidpersec.bt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pidpersec.bt: command not found

Solutions to pidpersec.bt: command not found

How To Fix pidpersec.bt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pidpersec.bt is provided by bpftrace package.

bpftrace is:

BPFtrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels (4.x). 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 (kprobes), user-level dynamic tracing (uprobes), and tracepoints. The BPFtrace language is inspired by awk and C, and predecessor tracers such as DTrace and SystemTap.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install bpftrace

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install bpftrace.

sudo apt -y install bpftrace

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install bpftrace

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pidpersec.bt command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.