ImportError: cannot import name 'BPF' from 'bcc'

[remyers]

I get this error: cannot import name 'BPF' from 'bcc' trying to run on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (22.04).

[remyers]

It seems the correct solution for Ubuntu 22.04 is to build bcc from scratch, but that required a few changes to the CMakeList.txt file based on similar issues mentioned in the bcc project.

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 18407e86..e981e795 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ if(CMAKE_USE_LIBBPF_PACKAGE)
 endif()

 if(NOT PYTHON_ONLY)
-  find_package(LLVM REQUIRED CONFIG)
+  find_package(LLVM 14 REQUIRED CONFIG)
   message(STATUS "Found LLVM: ${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${LLVM_PACKAGE_VERSION} (Use LLVM_ROOT envronment variable for another version of LLVM)")

   if(ENABLE_CLANG_JIT)
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ if(NOT PYTHON_ONLY)

     # clang is linked as a library, but the library path searching is
     # primitively supported, unlike libLLVM
-    set(CLANG_SEARCH "/opt/local/llvm/lib;/usr/lib/llvm-3.7/lib;${LLVM_LIBRARY_DIRS}")
+    set(CLANG_SEARCH "/opt/local/llvm/lib;/usr/lib/llvm-14/lib;${LLVM_LIBRARY_DIRS}")

[remyers]

I also had to uninstall the bcc installed by default in Ubunutu and located in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bcc. I renamed the folder to bcc.old, but there might be a cleaner way to uninstall it that I couldn't figure out.

Hopefully this helps someone else on Ubuntu that isn't a bcc guru to run these great simulations.