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Quick installation of dwarves:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: dwarves
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install dwarves
Package Details | |
| Package: | dwarves |
| Version: | 1.9-1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/blog |
| Description: | set of advanced DWARF utilities This package contains tools that use the DWARF debugging information inserted in ELF binaries by the compiler. This information is already used by debuggers (e.g. GDB), and more recent tools such as systemtap. . Utilities in the dwarves suite include: . - pahole: finds alignment holes in structs and classes in languages such as C/C++, CPU cacheline alignment. Helps repack those structures to achieve more cache hits. - codiff: a diff like tool to compare the effects changes in source code generate on the resulting binaries - pfunct: displays all sorts of information about functions, inlines, etc. - pdwtags: pretty-prints DWARF information - pglobal: lists global symbols - prefcnt: counts DWARF tags usage - syscse: system call sign extender - dtagnames: lists tag names Homepage: http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/blog |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/utils |
How to install dwarves on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If dwarves is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L dwarves' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L dwarves Package `dwarves' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing dwarves:
After system update use the following command to install dwarves:
sudo apt-get install dwarves
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove dwarves from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the dwarves from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the dwarves following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove dwarves
Following command is used to remove the dwarves package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove dwarves
This will remove dwarves and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing dwarves with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge dwarves
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove dwarves
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with dwarves package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
