Open Visual Traceroute is a program to visualise the route and measure packet loss on a network. 

This guide is intended as a relatively easy step by step guide to:

• Install Open Visual Traceroute on Ubuntu.

Requirements:

• Ubuntu 12.04 or later installed. Should work on Mint and Other Debian based distros.

1. Install Oracle Java 7 JRE and other dependencies

• Open Visual Traceroute requires Oracle Java 6 JRE or newer to be installed.
• More information about Java on Ubuntu available here.
• The easiest way I have found is to install Java on Ubuntu is via the Web Upd8 PPA .
• First add the PPA. Open a Terminal Window and enter :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update

• A good idea to minimise any Java conflicts is to remove OpenJDK.  open a Terminal Window and enter :

sudo apt-get remove --purge openjdk*

• To install Oracle Java 7 version and make sure gksu is installed (removed from Ubuntu 13.04) open a Terminal Window and enter :

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer gksu traceroute

• Tip: Top check the Java version installed on your system open a terminal and enter :

java -version

2. Download and install Open Visual Traceroute

• Download and Install the latest DEB file from here: Open Visual Traceroute project page on Sourceforge.

• You will then be able to search for Open Visual Traceroute in your unity dash and launch the application.