How To Install bustle on Debian 10

Learn how to install bustle on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bustle is D-Bus activity visualiser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bustle on Debian 10.

What is bustle

bustle is:

Bustle is a tool to chart and provide timing information of D-Bus calls for profiling and debugging purposes. It is intended to replace reading the cryptic output of dbus-monitor.

Calls are displayed using Message Sequence Charts, a succinct way of representing entities and interactions over time. It can also output data in Graphviz format.

This package contains the graphical visualizer for traces generated with the bustle-pcap tool in the bustle-pcap package.

There are three methods to install bustle on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bustle Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bustle using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bustle

Install bustle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bustle using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bustle

Install bustle 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bustle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bustle

How To Uninstall bustle on Debian 10

To uninstall only the bustle package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bustle

Uninstall bustle And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bustle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bustle

Remove bustle Configurations and Data

To remove bustle configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bustle

Remove bustle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bustle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bustle

Dependencies

bustle have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bustle package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.