How To Install libdmalloc5 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdmalloc5 on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdmalloc5

Remove libdmalloc5 Configurations and Data

To remove libdmalloc5 configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• libdmalloc5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdmalloc5 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.