How To Install apitrace-gui on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install apitrace-gui on Ubuntu 18.04. apitrace-gui is tools for debugging OpenGL applications and drivers - graphical frontend

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.