stap-merge command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix stap-merge command not found error message

Introduction

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

stap-merge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stap-merge: command not found

In Ubuntu stap-merge is provided by systemtap-runtime package.

systemtap-runtime is:

This package contains staprun program that can be used to run compiled SystemTap probes.

SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system.

To be able to write new SystemTap probes, install systemtap package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install systemtap-runtime

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

You can also use apt command to install systemtap-runtime.

sudo apt -y install systemtap-runtime

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

sudo aptitude install systemtap-runtime

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