[clue-tech] a network mystery - traceroute

[Keith Hellman]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 09:38:42PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Linux, the great gurus at ubuntu/debian have decided to drop the
> traceroute program, offering instead something called tracepath. I get

I've still got traceroute on my system:

ssh-agent ~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
4.0
ssh-agent ~$ dpkg -S traceroute
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute/copyright
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute/examples/median.awk
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute/examples/mean.awk
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute
traceroute: /usr/share/lintian/overrides/traceroute
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute/README
traceroute: /usr/share/man/man8/traceroute.lbl.8.gz
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute/changelog.gz
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute/changelog.Debian.gz
traceroute: /usr/share/doc/traceroute/examples
traceroute: /usr/bin/traceroute.lbl
ssh-agent ~$ file /usr/bin/traceroute.lbl
/usr/bin/traceroute.lbl: setuid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared
libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped
ssh-agent ~$ file /usr/bin/traceroute
/usr/bin/traceroute: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/traceroute'
ssh-agent ~$ ls -la /etc/alternatives/traceroute
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2006-12-23 21:27 /etc/alternatives/traceroute -> /usr/bin/traceroute.lbl
ssh-agent ~$ 

Perhaps you can just install the traceroute package?  Or perhaps it is
just Ubuntu that has removed it?

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