How To Install valgrind-if-available on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install valgrind-if-available
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is valgrind-if-available
valgrind-if-available is:
This metapackage installs Valgrind on architectures where it is available. As the list of archs where Valgrind works changes quite often, explicitly listing it as a [Build-]Depend is cumbersome and prone to being outdated. Instead, you may use this metapackage.
There are three methods to install valgrind-if-available
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install valgrind-if-available Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install valgrind-if-available
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install valgrind-if-available
Install valgrind-if-available Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install valgrind-if-available
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install valgrind-if-available
Install valgrind-if-available 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 valgrind-if-available
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install valgrind-if-available
How To Uninstall valgrind-if-available on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the valgrind-if-available
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove valgrind-if-available
Uninstall valgrind-if-available And Its Dependencies
To uninstall valgrind-if-available
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove valgrind-if-available
Remove valgrind-if-available Configurations and Data
To remove valgrind-if-available
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge valgrind-if-available
Remove valgrind-if-available configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove valgrind-if-available
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge valgrind-if-available
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install valgrind-if-available
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.