How To Install delve on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install delve on Ubuntu.
What is delve
delve is:
Delve enables you to interact with your program by controlling the execution of the process, evaluating variables, and providing information of thread/goroutine state, CPU register state and more.
There are three methods to install delve on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install delve Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install delve using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install delve
Install delve Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install delve using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install delve
Install delve 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 delve using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install delve
How To Uninstall delve on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the delve package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove delve
Uninstall delve And Its Dependencies
To uninstall delve and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove delve
Remove delve Configurations and Data
To remove delve configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge delve
Remove delve configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove delve configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge delve
Dependencies
delve have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install delve package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.