How To Install tor-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tor-dbg on Debian 9.
What is tor-dbg
tor-dbg is:
This package provides the debugging symbols for Tor, The Onion Router. Those symbols allow your debugger to assign names to your backtraces, which makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps.
There are three methods to install tor-dbg on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tor-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tor-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tor-dbg
Install tor-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tor-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tor-dbg
Install tor-dbg 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 tor-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tor-dbg
How To Uninstall tor-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tor-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tor-dbg
Uninstall tor-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tor-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tor-dbg
Remove tor-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove tor-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tor-dbg
Remove tor-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tor-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tor-dbg
Dependencies
tor-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tor-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.