How To Install dwarves on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install dwarves on Ubuntu 22.04. dwarves is set of advanced DWARF utilities - transitional package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dwarves on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is dwarves

dwarves is:

This is a “dummy” package that depends on the newly named pahole.

There are three methods to install dwarves on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install dwarves Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install dwarves using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install dwarves

Install dwarves Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install dwarves using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install dwarves

Install dwarves 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 dwarves using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dwarves

How To Uninstall dwarves on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the dwarves package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dwarves

Uninstall dwarves And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dwarves and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dwarves

Remove dwarves Configurations and Data

To remove dwarves configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dwarves

Remove dwarves configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove dwarves configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dwarves

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dwarves package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.