How to Install and Uninstall strace Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "strace" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install strace on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                strace
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "strace" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall strace on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                strace
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the strace package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: strace
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 892
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.11-1ubuntu3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/main/s/strace/strace_4.11-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 179014
MD5sum: 2e63c248a3dc9e39e40371b5e7799381
SHA1: 818023f038f8806272858e97070a743f33e7356c
SHA256: 35b65857112ebc215e013d764e4442b920a19b2b1fba2b74bd140604dec38065
Description-en: System call tracer
strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out
a trace of all the system calls made by a 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.
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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.
Description-md5: fdf43cf55f0bad37911360a84bc907c3
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: standard, ubuntu-touch-core, ubuntu-touch, ubuntu-sdk