How To Install libasan5 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan5 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libasan5
libasan5 is:
AddressSanitizer (ASan) is a fast memory error detector. It finds use-after-free and {heap,stack,global}-buffer overflow bugs in C/C++ programs. Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop Build-Essential: yes
Package: libasan5 Architecture: amd64 Version: 9.3.0-10ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Source: gcc-9 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1656 Depends: gcc-9-base (= 9.3.0-10ubuntu2), libc6 (>= 2.23), libgcc-s1 Filename: pool/main/g/gcc-9/libasan5_9.3.0-10ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 395460 MD5sum: 50cf851e1fb937cd59a0254ec9bec1fc SHA1: e0ddc7a548a307ddc611a46f0c20766d68f26cfa SHA256: 7c80d740abb6de1e7ba527c446b22ed074c0b2107c5d5cf2927144b88c06aacb Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/ Description-en: AddressSanitizer – a fast memory error detector AddressSanitizer (ASan) is a fast memory error detector. It finds use-after-free and {heap,stack,global}-buffer overflow bugs in C/C++ programs. Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop Build-Essential: yes
There are three methods to install libasan5 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libasan5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libasan5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libasan5
Install libasan5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libasan5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libasan5
Install libasan5 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libasan5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libasan5
How To Uninstall libasan5 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libasan5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libasan5
Uninstall libasan5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libasan5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libasan5
Remove libasan5 Configurations and Data
To remove libasan5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libasan5
Remove libasan5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libasan5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libasan5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan5 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
