How To Install duma 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 duma on Ubuntu.
What is duma
duma is:
Open-source library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C and C++ programs.
This library is a fork of Bruce Perens Electric Fence library and adds some new features to it. Features of the DUMA library:
- “overloads” all standard memory allocation functions like malloc(), calloc(), memalign(), strdup(), operator new, operator new[] and also their counterpart deallocation functions like free(), operator delete and operator delete[]
- utilizes the MMU (memory management unit) of the CPU: allocates and protects an extra memory page to detect any illegal access beyond the top of the buffer (or bottom, at the user’s option)
- stops the program at exactly that instruction, which does the erroneous access to the protected memory page, allowing location of the defective source code in a debugger detects erroneous writes at the non-protected end of the memory block at deallocation of the memory block
- detects mismatch of allocation/deallocation functions: f.e. allocation with malloc() but deallocation with operator delete
- leak detection: detect memory blocks which were not deallocated until program exit
- preloading of the library
- allowing tests without necessity of changing source code or recompilation
There are three methods to install duma 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 duma Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install duma using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install duma
Install duma Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install duma using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install duma
Install duma 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 duma using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install duma
How To Uninstall duma on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the duma package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove duma
Uninstall duma And Its Dependencies
To uninstall duma and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove duma
Remove duma Configurations and Data
To remove duma configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge duma
Remove duma configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove duma configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge duma
Dependencies
duma have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install duma package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.