How To Install minicoredumper on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minicoredumper
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is minicoredumper
minicoredumper is:
minicoredumper is a program that handles the creation of core dump files on Linux. It can produce much smaller core dump files by making use of sparse files, compression, and allowing the user to configure what parts of the process memory image should be dumped.
There are three methods to install minicoredumper
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 minicoredumper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install minicoredumper
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install minicoredumper
Install minicoredumper Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install minicoredumper
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install minicoredumper
Install minicoredumper 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 minicoredumper
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install minicoredumper
How To Uninstall minicoredumper on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the minicoredumper
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove minicoredumper
Uninstall minicoredumper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall minicoredumper
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove minicoredumper
Remove minicoredumper Configurations and Data
To remove minicoredumper
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge minicoredumper
Remove minicoredumper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove minicoredumper
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minicoredumper
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minicoredumper
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.