How To Install hierarchyviewer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hierarchyviewer on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hierarchyviewer
hierarchyviewer is:
The Hierarchy Viewer allows you to debug and optimize your user interface. It provides a visual representation of the layout’s View hierarchy (the Layout View) and a magnified inspector of the display (the Pixel Perfect View).
See also: https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/hierarchy-viewer.html
This package provides the standalone launcher of Hierarchy Viewer. However it is deprecated, please use Android Device Monitor instead.
There are three methods to install hierarchyviewer on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hierarchyviewer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hierarchyviewer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hierarchyviewer
Install hierarchyviewer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hierarchyviewer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hierarchyviewer
Install hierarchyviewer Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hierarchyviewer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hierarchyviewer
How To Uninstall hierarchyviewer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hierarchyviewer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hierarchyviewer
Uninstall hierarchyviewer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hierarchyviewer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hierarchyviewer
Remove hierarchyviewer Configurations and Data
To remove hierarchyviewer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hierarchyviewer
Remove hierarchyviewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hierarchyviewer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hierarchyviewer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hierarchyviewer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
