How To Install kdbg on Debian 10

Learn how to install kdbg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. kdbg is graphical debugger interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdbg on Debian 10.

What is kdbg

kdbg is:

KDbg is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, stepping through code and much more. KDbg requires KDE but you can of course debug any program.

Features include the following:

  • Inspection of variable values in a tree structure.
  • Direct member: For certain compound data types the most important member values are displayed next to the variable name, so that it is not necessary to expand the subtree of that variable in order to see the member value. KDbg can also display Qt’s QString values, which are Unicode strings.
  • Debugger at your finger tips: The basic debugger functions (step, next, run, finish, until, set/clear/enable/disable breakpoint) are bound to function keys F5 through F10. Quick and easy.
  • View source code, search text, set program arguments and environment variables, display arbitrary expressions.
  • Debugging of core dumps, attaching to running processes is possible.
  • Conditional breakpoints.

There are three methods to install kdbg on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kdbg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kdbg

Install kdbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kdbg

Install kdbg 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 kdbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdbg

How To Uninstall kdbg on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove kdbg

Uninstall kdbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kdbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdbg

Remove kdbg Configurations and Data

To remove kdbg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kdbg

Remove kdbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdbg

Dependencies

kdbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdbg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.