ltrace command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ltrace: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ltrace: command not found

Solutions to ltrace: command not found

How To Fix ltrace: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ltrace is provided by ltrace package.

ltrace is:

ltrace is a debugging program which runs a specified command until it exits. While the command is executing, ltrace intercepts and records the dynamic library calls which are called by the executed process and the signals received by that process. It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the 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 the source handy.

You should install ltrace if you need a sysadmin tool for tracking the execution of processes.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ltrace

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ltrace.

sudo apt -y install ltrace

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ltrace

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ltrace command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.