https://github.com/shnatsel/everything-dbg
Install all debug symbols for a Debian package in one command
https://github.com/shnatsel/everything-dbg
debian-scripts debugging ubuntu-scripts
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Install all debug symbols for a Debian package in one command
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/shnatsel/everything-dbg
- Owner: Shnatsel
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2018-02-24T11:53:57.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-02-25T09:58:40.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-28T07:32:22.741Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: debian-scripts, debugging, ubuntu-scripts
- Language: Shell
- Size: 9.77 KB
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# everything-dbg
Install all debug symbols for a Debian package in one command.
## Why?
Let's say you want to debug or profile `xfce4-terminal`. To get debugging symbols for it on Debian (and its derivatives like Ubuntu or elementary OS) you'd run:
`$ sudo apt install xfce4-terminal-dbg`
However, debugger still shows a lot of unknown function calls! What do?
Turns out you have only installed debugging symbols for xfce4-terminal itself, but not for any of its libraries (gtk+, libvte, etc) which shoulder most of the actual work. There was no easy way to install debugging symbols for all the dependencies... until now.
## Introducing everything-dbg
`$ everything-dbg xfce4-terminal` will print names of -dbg packages for all dependencies of the specified package. Simply pass it to `apt install` to install them.
Features:
1. Fetches debugging symbols for dependencies of dependencies and so on all the way down to libc6-dbg.
1. Supports [-dbgsym packages](https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages): uses -dbgsym package if it's available, otherwise uses -dbg
1. Checks that every -dbg package is actually installable, prints warnings and skips the ones that cannot be installed (Ubuntu has a bunch of -dbg packages which cannot be installed due to dependency issues)
1. Clean output on stdout, all messages go to stderr, so it can be easily combined with other tools.
## Installation
```
sudo apt install apt-rdepends
git clone https://github.com/Shnatsel/everything-dbg.git
```