How To Install apitrace-tracers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apitrace-tracers on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apitrace-tracers package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
