How To Install ltrace on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ltrace on Fedora 36.
What is ltrace
Ltrace is a debugging program which runs a specified command until the command exits. While the command is executing, ltrace intercepts and records both the dynamic library calls called by the executed process and the signals received by the executed process. Ltrace can also intercept and print system calls executed by the process. You should install ltrace if you need a sysadmin tool for tracking the execution of processes.
We can use yum or dnf to install ltrace on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ltrace.
Install ltrace on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ltrace using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ltrace
Install ltrace on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ltrace using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ltrace
How To Uninstall ltrace on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ltrace package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ltrace
ltrace Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/ltrace
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/0ab2b9e18960288ca0ca9e0550bf2c4b6dd7d1
/usr/share/doc/ltrace
/usr/share/doc/ltrace/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ltrace/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/ltrace/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/ltrace/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ltrace/README
/usr/share/doc/ltrace/TODO
/usr/share/ltrace
/usr/share/ltrace/libacl.so.conf
/usr/share/ltrace/libc.so.conf
/usr/share/ltrace/libm.so.conf
/usr/share/ltrace/syscalls.conf
/usr/share/man/man1/ltrace.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ltrace.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ltrace on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).