How to Install and Uninstall pahole Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "pahole" package

Learn how to install pahole on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                pahole
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pahole" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall pahole on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pahole
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pahole package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: pahole
Source: dwarves
Version: 1.22-4~bpo11+1
Installed-Size: 1409
Maintainer: Thomas Girard
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: dwarves (<< 1.22)
Depends: libbpf0 (>= 1:0.4.0), libc6 (>= 2.22), libdw1 (>= 0.157), libelf1 (>= 0.142), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Description-en: 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 used by
debuggers (e.g. GDB), and other tools such as systemtap.
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Utilities in the dwarves suite include:
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- 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
Description-md5: f56916834da42533de4999daa9a31a25
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dwarves/pahole_1.22-4~bpo11+1_amd64.deb
Size: 219300
SHA256: 83a01db1956b13c6aa209a49275eca66f4a47670420078202b1edcb2bcbcd052