How To Install alleyoop on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install alleyoop on Debian 9. alleyoop is Front-end to the Valgrind memory checker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alleyoop on Debian 9.

What is alleyoop

alleyoop is:

Alleyoop is a GNOME front-end to the Valgrind memory checker, including features like intelligently suppressing errors and launching editors at the error position in the source code.

Valgrind helps you to find memory-management problems in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind’s supervision, all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted.

There are three methods to install alleyoop on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install alleyoop Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install alleyoop using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install alleyoop

Install alleyoop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install alleyoop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install alleyoop

Install alleyoop Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install alleyoop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alleyoop

How To Uninstall alleyoop on Debian 9

To uninstall only the alleyoop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove alleyoop

Uninstall alleyoop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall alleyoop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alleyoop

Remove alleyoop Configurations and Data

To remove alleyoop configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge alleyoop

Remove alleyoop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove alleyoop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alleyoop

Dependencies

alleyoop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alleyoop package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.