How To Install electric-fence on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install electric-fence on Kali Linux.
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 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 electric-fence Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install electric-fence using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install electric-fenceInstall electric-fence Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install electric-fence using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install electric-fenceInstall electric-fence 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install electric-fence using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install electric-fenceHow To Uninstall electric-fence on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the electric-fence package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove electric-fenceUninstall electric-fence And Its Dependencies
To uninstall electric-fence and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove electric-fenceRemove electric-fence Configurations and Data
To remove electric-fence configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge electric-fenceRemove 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-fenceDependencies
electric-fence have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install electric-fence package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
