How To Install apitrace-tracers on Debian 12

Learn how to install apitrace-tracers on Debian 12 with this tutorial. apitrace-tracers is tools for debugging OpenGL applications and drivers - application tracer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apitrace-tracers on Debian 12.

What is apitrace-tracers

apitrace-tracers 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 the components required to trace the OpenGL calls made by an application and record them into a trace file for later replay and debugging.

There are three methods to install apitrace-tracers on Debian 12. 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-tracers 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-tracers using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install apitrace-tracers

Install apitrace-tracers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install apitrace-tracers

Install apitrace-tracers 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 apitrace-tracers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apitrace-tracers

How To Uninstall apitrace-tracers on Debian 12

To uninstall only the apitrace-tracers package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apitrace-tracers

Uninstall apitrace-tracers And Its Dependencies

To uninstall apitrace-tracers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apitrace-tracers

Remove apitrace-tracers Configurations and Data

To remove apitrace-tracers configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apitrace-tracers

Remove apitrace-tracers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apitrace-tracers

Dependencies

apitrace-tracers have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apitrace-tracers package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.