How to Install and Uninstall electric-fence Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "electric-fence" package

This is a short guide on how to install electric-fence on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                electric-fence
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "electric-fence" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall electric-fence on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                electric-fence
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the electric-fence package on Kali Linux

Package: electric-fence
Source: electric-fence (2.2.6)
Version: 2.2.6+b1
Installed-Size: 73
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Size: 21316
SHA256: 4119f021ab9267f2a479d03cab24211a7f2b5918328d010187ed914a25b6d122
SHA1: 14d28e578669e908bb6ae59c3114901cb59da7b2
MD5sum: 2af92bd8d769dafca38516e2cc11d382
Description: A malloc(3) debugger
Electric Fence is a debugger that uses virtual memory hardware to detect
illegal memory accesses. It can detect two common programming bugs: software
that overruns or underruns the boundaries of a malloc() memory allocation,
and software that touches a memory allocation that has been released by
free().
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Unlike other malloc() debuggers, Electric Fence will detect read accesses as
well as writes, and it will stop and pinpoint the exact instruction that
causes an error. It is not as thorough as Purify, however.
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In order to debug a program it needs to be linked with Electric Fence's
library or dynamic linking needs to be used; README.Debian explains that in
detail.
Description-md5:
Tag: devel::debugger, role::program, role::shared-lib,
works-with::software:running
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/electric-fence/electric-fence_2.2.6+b1_amd64.deb