OPEN VISUAL TRACEROUTE - Which Should I Get?

Hardware Librem 5
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Some times I find it helpful if I knew where a IP# is actually located. I have been using Open Visual Traceroute for years in Windows. I’d like to add it to L5 (Byzantium).

There are many Linux versions.

Which version should I install on L5 Byzantium ?

  1. Linux deb x86
  2. Linux deb x64
  3. Linux rpm x86
  4. Linux rpm x64
  5. Universal/Portable

TIA,
~s

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You need Linux deb aarch64 (or it can also be Linux deb arm64) for L5.
Alternatively appimage or flatapp if those exist and offer aarch64.
Unfortunately your choice of traceroute doesn’t offer those.

Possible visual alternative: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.Archeb.opentrace (https://opentrace.app/) [may not be to everyone’s liking or be at par with OVT]

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Depends on specifically what you want to know. traceroute isn’t really this however.

You can sometimes use whois $ip but that’s not very user-friendly.

For browser use, a browser extension like “CountryFlag” (or similar) can do the job in a user-friendly way. Not always kept up to date though.

You can also download a geoip database yourself but again not very user-friendly and not always kept up to date.

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I use whois from a website. Sometimes I check from multiple websites as the reporting format may vary.

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Hi Tracy,
I do the same at times. But I like the view of the routes and names that OVT gives me. Checking my own location to see where it goes, always goes from my place to Victoria, back then to Toronto, back to Victoria, back to Toronto then a tour of the US, back to Toronto, then to Geneva - ending in to Norway at unknown place in the mountains.
That’s when I test Google by going to it’s .com site, which ever one that is.

~s

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