How To Install lttv on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lttv on Debian 10.
What is lttv
lttv is:
The LTTng project aims at providing highly efficient tracing tools for Linux. Its tracers help track down performance issues and debugging problems involving multiple concurrent processes and threads. Tracing across multiple systems is also possible.
The Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer (LTTV) is the second generation of the visualization tool. It is based on a trace format (the files where the data is recorded on disk) written by the LTTng tracer.
This package contains the trace reading library and trace viewing tools for the new Linux Trace Toolkit trace format.
There are three methods to install lttv 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 lttv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lttv using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lttv
Install lttv Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lttv using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lttv
Install lttv 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 lttv using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lttv
How To Uninstall lttv on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lttv package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lttv
Uninstall lttv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lttv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lttv
Remove lttv Configurations and Data
To remove lttv configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lttv
Remove lttv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lttv configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lttv
Dependencies
lttv have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libbabeltrace1
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libpopt0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lttv package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.