How To Install electric-fence on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install electric-fence
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is electric-fence
electric-fence is:
Electric Fence is a debugger that uses virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory accesses. It can detect two common programming bugs: software that overruns or underruns the boundaries of a malloc() memory allocation, and software that touches a memory allocation that has been released by free().
Unlike other malloc() debuggers, Electric Fence will detect read accesses as well as writes, and it will stop and pinpoint the exact instruction that causes an error. It is not as thorough as Purify, however.
In order to debug a program it needs to be linked with Electric Fence’s library or dynamic linking needs to be used; README.Debian explains that in detail.
There are three methods to install electric-fence
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 electric-fence Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install electric-fence
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install electric-fence
Install electric-fence Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install electric-fence
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install electric-fence
Install electric-fence 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 electric-fence
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install electric-fence
How To Uninstall electric-fence on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the electric-fence
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove electric-fence
Uninstall electric-fence And Its Dependencies
To uninstall electric-fence
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove electric-fence
Remove electric-fence Configurations and Data
To remove electric-fence
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge electric-fence
Remove electric-fence configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove electric-fence
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge electric-fence
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install electric-fence
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.