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traceproto package

Traceproto looks for traceroute in the wrong location

Bug #242918 reported by Gavin Chappell on 2008-06-25

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	traceproto (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Low	Ralph Janke

Bug Description

When running traceproto, an error is given reading:

exec: 120: /bin/traceroute: not found

This is because traceroute on a Ubuntu system (this is Hardy with all current packages from -updates and -proposed) is in /usr/bin/traceroute. Editing the traceproto shell script by hand fixes this.

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Gavin Chappell (g-a-c) wrote on 2008-06-25:

diff -urN between original Ubuntu traceproto script, and working one Edit (375 bytes, text/plain)

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote on 2008-06-25:

I can confirm this behaviour

Changed in traceproto:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote on 2008-06-25:

Thanks for reporting this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Could you please provide the output of

apt-cache policy traceproto

Thanks

Changed in traceproto:
status:	Triaged → Incomplete
assignee:	nobody → txwikinger

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Gavin Chappell (g-a-c) wrote on 2008-06-26:

gav@mpc:~$ apt-cache policy traceproto
traceproto:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.1.2beta1-4
  Version table:
     1.1.2beta1-4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

I'm a bit confused now, since apt reckons I don't have it installed but it's definitely present...

gav@mpc:~$ whereis traceproto
traceproto: /usr/bin/traceproto.db /usr/bin/traceproto /usr/share/man/man8/traceproto.8.gz

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote on 2008-07-26:

Please try to install the traceproto package and retry your problem. I believe this happens because there is a default traceproto if the package is not installed IIRC.