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