How To Install traceview on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install traceview on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is traceview
traceview is:
Traceview is a graphical viewer for execution logs that you create by using the Debug class to log tracing information in your code. Traceview can help you debug your application and profile its performance.
This package provides the standalone launcher of Traceview. However it is deprecated, please use Android Device Monitor instead.
There are three methods to install traceview 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 traceview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install traceview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install traceview
Install traceview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install traceview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install traceview
Install traceview 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 traceview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install traceview
How To Uninstall traceview on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the traceview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove traceview
Uninstall traceview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall traceview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove traceview
Remove traceview Configurations and Data
To remove traceview configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge traceview
Remove traceview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove traceview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge traceview
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install traceview package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
