How To Install apitrace-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apitrace-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is apitrace-gui
apitrace-gui is:
apitrace is a suite of tools for debugging OpenGL applications and drivers. It includes a tool to generate a trace of all the OpenGL calls an application makes and a tool for replaying these traces and inspecting the rendering and OpenGL state during the program’s execution.
This makes it useful for identifying the sources of graphical corruption in OpenGL applications.
This package contains a graphical frontend for the apitrace tool, making it easy to trace applications and replay, compare, profile, and modify existing traces.
There are three methods to install apitrace-gui 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 apitrace-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apitrace-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apitrace-gui
Install apitrace-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apitrace-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apitrace-gui
Install apitrace-gui 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 apitrace-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apitrace-gui
How To Uninstall apitrace-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the apitrace-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apitrace-gui
Uninstall apitrace-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apitrace-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apitrace-gui
Remove apitrace-gui Configurations and Data
To remove apitrace-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apitrace-gui
Remove apitrace-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apitrace-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apitrace-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apitrace-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.