How To Install ddd on Ubuntu 20.04

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ddd on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is ddd

ddd is:

The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular graphical user interface to UNIX debuggers such as GDB, DBX, XDB, JDB and others. Besides typical front-end features such as viewing source texts and breakpoints, DDD provides an interactive graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs. Using DDD, you can reason about your application by watching its data, not just by viewing it execute lines of source code.

Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in Ada, Bash, C, C++, Chill, Fortran, Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl and Python; machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, backtrace, and history editors; preferences and settings editors; program execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote host; on-line manual; interactive help on the Motif user interface; GDB/DBX/XDB command-line interface with full editing, history, and completion capabilities.

This version is linked against Lesstif, an LGPL-ed implementation of Motif.

There are three methods to install ddd 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 ddd Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ddd

Install ddd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ddd

Install ddd 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 ddd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ddd

How To Uninstall ddd on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove ddd

Uninstall ddd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ddd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ddd

Remove ddd Configurations and Data

To remove ddd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ddd

Remove ddd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ddd

References

• ddd website
• ddd on packages.ubuntu.com

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ddd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.