• at least Python 3.2
• libunwind
• addr2line

To install development version from branch master run:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/trnila/tracer.git

Optional dependencies are colorlog and ipython so if you want to have better interface install them:

pip3 install colorlog ipython

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python3-dev git libunwind8-dev python3-pip
virtualenv -p python3 venv3
source venv3/bin/activate
pip3 install git+https://github.com/trnila/tracer.git
pip3 install colorlog ipython # optional

tracer -- sh -c "curl httpbin.com/headers ; cat /etc/passwd | tr a-z A-Z | tac" 

For more information about options run

tracer -h

If you clone this repository somewhere, you can run interesting examples though helper script ./examples/run, but it requires tracer and tracergui in your PATH.

More information is available in documentation.

git clone https://github.com/trnila/tracer
cd tracer
python setup.py develop

Run python -m unittest or pytest if you have pytest installed.