How To Install strace on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install strace on Kali Linux.

What is strace

strace is:

strace is a system call tracer: i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by another process/program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don’t have source.

System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.

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

Install strace Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install strace

Install strace Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install strace

Install strace Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install strace

How To Uninstall strace on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove strace

Uninstall strace And Its Dependencies

To uninstall strace and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove strace

Remove strace Configurations and Data

To remove strace configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge strace

Remove strace configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strace

Dependencies

strace have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libunwind8

References

• strace website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install strace package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.