How to install Visual traceroute - A Graphical tool
To install Graphical Traceroute tool in Ubuntu
Visual traceroute is a graphical, command line tool to traceroute. It traces the routing paths for the packets transmitting over an Internet Protocol (IP) Network. It supports almost all platform and represents the data in 3D format. Installation of Visual traceroute is explained in this article.
To check the dependencies
This tool is programmed in Java. Therefore requires Java preinstalled. Run the following command to check the version of Java.
root@linuxhelp:~# java -version
java version " 1.8.0_101"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_101-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.101-b13, mixed mode)
Run the following command to download the open Visual Traceroute.
root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://ncu.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openvisualtrace/1.6.3/ovtr_1.6.3-1_amd64.deb
--2016-08-26 14:21:50-- http://ncu.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openvisualtrace/1.6.3/ovtr_1.6.3-1_amd64.deb
Resolving ncu.dl.sourceforge.net (ncu.dl.sourceforge.net)... 140.115.17.45
Connecting to ncu.dl.sourceforge.net (ncu.dl.sourceforge.net)|140.115.17.45|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 28329626 (27M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ ovtr_1.6.3-1_amd64.deb’
ovtr_1.6.3-1_amd64.deb 100%[========================================================================================> ] 27.02M 140KB/s in 2m 35s
2016-08-26 14:24:26 (179 KB/s) - ‘ ovtr_1.6.3-1_amd64.deb’ saved [28329626/28329626]
Once the download is completed successfully, run the following command to install gdebi.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gdebi-core gksu gnome-icon-theme libcairo-perl libgksu2-0 libglib-perl libgtk2-perl libpango-perl
Suggested packages:
libfont-freetype-perl libgtk2-perl-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gdebi gdebi-core gksu gnome-icon-theme libcairo-perl libgksu2-0 libglib-perl libgtk2-perl libpango-perl
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 162 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 21.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libgksu2-0 amd64 2.0.13~pre1-6ubuntu8 [71.8 kB]
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
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update-alternatives: using /usr/share/libgksu/debian/gconf-defaults.libgksu-sudo to provide /usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_libgksu (libgksu-gconf-defaults) in auto mode
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Setting up gksu (2.0.2-9ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7ubuntu1) ...
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And finally run the below command to install Visual Traceroute.
root@linuxhelp:~# gdebi ovtr_1.6.3-1_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: traceroute whois
OpenVisualTraceroute
OpenVisualTraceroute
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 traceroute amd64 1:2.0.21-1 [45.5 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 whois amd64 5.2.11 [34.0 kB]
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(Reading database ... 213104 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack ovtr_1.6.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ovtr (1.6.3-1) ...
Setting up ovtr (1.6.3-1) ...
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Open the application from your Unity Dash as shown in below snap.
Here we need to type the IP address or hostname for the network you want to scan for the routing paths.
To see the Details of the IP address.
To switch to 2D/3D mode.
To take screenshot.
To change the settings.
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