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These tools are available in the official Maemo 5 Fremantle tools repository at repository.maemo.org. Some of them may have already been available unofficially, but these versions are tested for functionality.

Installation instructions are available [[#Installation|below]].

== Categories ==

The tools are arranged into different categories so that you can easily see what tools are available for specific kinds of tasks. The same tool can be present in multiple categories.

=== Code Analyser ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Code analysis tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/doxygen|doxygen]] || a source code documentation generator tool
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/gtk-doc|gtk-doc]] || an API documentation generator
|}

=== Debugging ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Debugging tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/crash-reporter|crash-reporter]] || user-friendly graphical user interface for [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-rich-core|sp-rich-core]]
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/gdb|gdb]] || GDB is the GNU debugger
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/functracer|functracer]] || an allocation backtrace tool
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/functracer-postproc|functracer-postproc]] || a post-processing tool for functracer output data
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/latrace|latrace]] || display a program's dynamic library calls
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/ltrace|ltrace]] || a library call tracer
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/maemo-debug-scripts|maemo-debug-scripts]] || a set of scripts to help with debugging tasks
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-error-visualizer|sp-error-visualizer]] || displays log messages as banners
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-rich-core|sp-rich-core]] || a core dump data saver
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-rich-core-postproc|sp-rich-core-postproc]] || contains rich-core-extract to examine *.rcore.lzo files created by sp-rich-core
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-response-time|sp-response-time]] || a library for monitoring UI response times
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-startup-time|sp-startup-time]] || a library for calculating application startup times
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/strace|strace]] || a system call tracer
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/syslog|syslog]] || a log message collecting service
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/valgrind|valgrind]] || a suite of tools for debugging and profiling programs
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/x11-utils|x11-utils]] || a collection of X Window System debugging tools; xev, xwininfo, xprop, xlsatoms and xlsclients.
|}

=== Miscellaneous ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Miscellaneous tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/less|less]] || a text file viewer/pager
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/osso-xterm|osso-xterm]] || a terminal emulator
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/man-db|man-db]] || manual page infrastructure
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/screen|screen]] || provides access to detachable console sessions
|}

=== Editors ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Text editors
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/nano|nano]] || a friendly text editor
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/vi|vi]] || a text editor
|}

=== Graphics ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Graphics tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/screenshot-tool|screenshot-tool]] || a command line utility to take screenshots
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/xresponse|xresponse]] || measures the time taken to update the screen after user action
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/xresponse-visualize|xresponse-visualize]] || scripts for visualizing xresponse logs
|}

=== Networking ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Networking tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/iputils|iputils]] || a collection of TCP/IP related utilities
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/netcat|netcat]] || a utility to read and write data across network connections
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/tcpdump|tcpdump]] || a network traffic capturing utility
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/traceroute|traceroute]] || print the route packets take to a network host
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/wget|wget]] || a utility to non-interactively download files from the Web
|}

=== Performance ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Performane analysis tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
|[[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/oprofile|oprofile]] || a low overhead system wide profiler
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/oprofileui|oprofileui]] || a user interface to oprofile
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-startup-time|sp-startup-time]] || a library for calculating application startup times
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/valgrind|valgrind]] || a suite of tools for debugging and profiling programs
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/xresponse|xresponse]] || measures the time taken to update the screen after user action
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/xresponse-visualize|xresponse-visualize]] || scripts for visualizing xresponse logs
|}

=== Resource Usage ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Resource usage monitoring tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/functracer|functracer]] || an allocation backtrace tool
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/functracer-postproc|functracer-postproc]] || a post-processing tool for functracer output data
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/htop|htop]] || an interactive process viewer
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-endurance|sp-endurance]] || tools to collect system endurance related information
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-endurance-postproc|sp-endurance-postproc]] || postprocessing scripts to parse and generate a report from endurance measurement data
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-memusage|sp-memusage]] || a collection of memory usage monitoring tools and scripts
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-smaps-measure|sp-smaps-measure]] || utilities for taking snapshots of smaps memory information
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-smaps-visualize|sp-smaps-visualize]] || utilities for analyzing smaps memory information
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sysstat|sysstat]] || tools for collecting and reporting system activity information
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/valgrind|valgrind]] || a suite of tools for debugging and profiling programs
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/xrestop|xrestop]] || shows X clients' X resource usage
|}

=== Test Automation ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Test automation tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/check|check]] || a unit test framework for C
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/sp-stress|sp-stress]] || tools to create artificial system load
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/xnee|xnee]] || automate user actions under X11
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/xresponse|xresponse]] || measures the time taken to update the screen after user action
|}

=== Wireless Tools ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Wireless networking tools
|-
! Tool !! Description
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/bluez-hcidump|bluez-hcidump]] || a tool to monitor Bluetooth activity
|-
| [[Documentation/devtools/maemo5/wireless-tools|wireless-tools]] || tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
|}

== Installation ==

These tools can be installed in the device by activating the Fremantle tools repository in the Application manager. The tools are command line utilities, so they will not add applications to the application manager list of downloadable applications. This also means that the tools need to be installed from the X terminal [[Root access|as root]]. Developers can also install them in Scratchbox using the command line interface.

To activate the tools repository with the Application Manager, 
[http://mg.pov.lt/770/tools-repository.install ('''does not work in PR 1.2 - please fix''') open this single-click install file], or manually create a new catalogue like this:

# Navigate to the application menu in the Application Manager (tap the title bar)
# Select ‘Application catalogs’
# Select ‘New’
# Enter a catalog name of ‘fremantle tools’
# Enter a web address of http://repository.maemo.org
# Enter a distribution of ‘fremantle/tools’
# Enter components of ‘free non-free’
# Make sure that ‘Disabled:’ is left unchecked
# Select ‘Save’

If you prefer to edit configuration files yourself instead of using the Application manager, add these lines to your <code>/etc/apt/sources.list</code>

<pre>
# fremantle tools
deb http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/tools free non-free
# fremantle tools sources
deb-src http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/tools free non-free
</pre>

To install a binary package in Scratchbox:

<pre>
$ fakeroot apt-get install &lt;bin pkg name&gt;
</pre>

To install a binary package to the device ([[Root access|as root]]):

<pre>
$ apt-get install &lt;bin pkg name&gt;   
</pre>

To install a source package in Scratchbox or to the device:
<pre>
$ apt-get source &lt;src pkg name&gt;                        
</pre>

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 To activate the tools repository with the Application Manager,
-<s>http://mg.pov.lt/770/tools-repository.install ('''does not work in PR 1.2 - please fix''')</s> [http://maemo.cloud-7.de/repositories.install open this single-click_2_install-3 file], or manually create a new catalogue like this:
+[http://mg.pov.lt/770/tools-repository.install ('''does not work in PR 1.2 - please fix''') open this single-click install file], or manually create a new catalogue like this:
 # Navigate to the application menu in the Application Manager (tap the title bar)