How To Install libdmalloc5 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdmalloc5 on Debian 11.
What is libdmalloc5
libdmalloc5 is:
Drop in replacement for the system’s
malloc',realloc’,calloc',free’ and other memory management routines while providing powerful debugging facilities configurable at runtime.
These facilities include such things as memory-leak tracking, fence-post write detection, file/line number reporting, and general logging of statistics.
This package contains only the shared libraries, the development files and documentation is in the libdmalloc-dev package.
There are three methods to install libdmalloc5 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libdmalloc5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libdmalloc5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdmalloc5
Install libdmalloc5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdmalloc5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdmalloc5
Install libdmalloc5 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 libdmalloc5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdmalloc5
How To Uninstall libdmalloc5 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libdmalloc5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdmalloc5
Uninstall libdmalloc5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdmalloc5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdmalloc5
Remove libdmalloc5 Configurations and Data
To remove libdmalloc5 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdmalloc5
Remove libdmalloc5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdmalloc5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdmalloc5
Dependencies
libdmalloc5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdmalloc5 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.