On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:56 +0800, Kevin Laurie wrote:> Hey Joseph > Thanks. Strace seems like a very useful tool > Only problem is that I dont think it is maintained on ubuntu. > Tried to run:- > apt-get install strace but could not download it. > Might need to download and build it. Do you know any other way of getting > it? > Thanks > Kevin A.try apt-cache search strace On Jessie (I'm not running Ubuntu) I get: devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier dnstracer - trace DNS queries to the source ioapps - IO profiler and IO traces replayer netsniff-ng - Linux network packet sniffer toolkit python-ptrace - Python bindings for ptrace strace - System call tracer subversion-tools - Assorted tools related to Apache Subversion xtrace - trace communication between X client and server You should be able to find the appropriate package to install to get strace. -Thom
Hi Thom, No results. I think I am missing some repositories. I might add some from ubuntu. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Thom Miller <thom at cagroups.com> wrote:> On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:56 +0800, Kevin Laurie wrote: > > Hey Joseph > > Thanks. Strace seems like a very useful tool > > Only problem is that I dont think it is maintained on ubuntu. > > Tried to run:- > > apt-get install strace but could not download it. > > Might need to download and build it. Do you know any other way of getting > > it? > > Thanks > > Kevin A. > > try apt-cache search strace > > On Jessie (I'm not running Ubuntu) I get: > > devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer > easier > dnstracer - trace DNS queries to the source > ioapps - IO profiler and IO traces replayer > netsniff-ng - Linux network packet sniffer toolkit > python-ptrace - Python bindings for ptrace > strace - System call tracer > subversion-tools - Assorted tools related to Apache Subversion > xtrace - trace communication between X client and server > > You should be able to find the appropriate package to install to get > strace. > > -Thom >
Yes. I was missing due to repositories. Added more sources and now its fine. Thanks! Kevin On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Kevin Laurie <superinterstellar at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi Thom, > No results. I think I am missing some repositories. > I might add some from ubuntu. > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Thom Miller <thom at cagroups.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:56 +0800, Kevin Laurie wrote: >> > Hey Joseph >> > Thanks. Strace seems like a very useful tool >> > Only problem is that I dont think it is maintained on ubuntu. >> > Tried to run:- >> > apt-get install strace but could not download it. >> > Might need to download and build it. Do you know any other way of >> getting >> > it? >> > Thanks >> > Kevin A. >> >> try apt-cache search strace >> >> On Jessie (I'm not running Ubuntu) I get: >> >> devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer >> easier >> dnstracer - trace DNS queries to the source >> ioapps - IO profiler and IO traces replayer >> netsniff-ng - Linux network packet sniffer toolkit >> python-ptrace - Python bindings for ptrace >> strace - System call tracer >> subversion-tools - Assorted tools related to Apache Subversion >> xtrace - trace communication between X client and server >> >> You should be able to find the appropriate package to install to get >> strace. >> >> -Thom >> > >