GDB - Installation

Before you go for installationcheck if you already have gdb installed on your Unix system by issuing the following command −

$gdb -help 

If GDB is installedthen it will display all the available options within your GDB. If GDB is not installedthen proceed for a fresh installation.

You can install GDB on your system by following the simple steps discussed below.

Step 1 − Make sure you have the prerequisites for installing gdb −

• An ANSI-compliant C compiler (gcc is recommended − note that gdb can debug codes generated by other compilers)

• 115 MB of free disk space is required on the partition on which you're going to build gdb.

• 20 MB of free disk space is required on the partition on which you're going to install gdb.

Step 2 − Use the following command to install gdb on linux machine.

$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dbg gdb valgrind 

Step 3 − Now use the following command to find the help information.

$gdb -help 

You now have gdb installed on your system and it is ready to use.