HOWTO : edb-debugger on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS

When we are doing debugging work on Windows system, we will use Immunity Debugger or Olldbg. Those are very good debuggers for Windows system. When doing debugging work on Linux, there is a command line version, namely GDB (The GNU Project Debugger). How about the GUI version of Linux debugger? Yes, there is one available, it is namely Evan's Debugger (edb-debugger).



Step 1 :



sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libboost1.48-all-dev subversion



Step 2 :



sudo -sH

cd /opt



svn checkout http://edb-debugger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ edb-debugger

cd edb-debugger

qmake

make

make install



Step 3 :



To run it. You can run it at any directory.



sudo -sH

edb



If you run it for the first time, you will be prompted for not loading some plugins, you can solve it when the pop up windows showing up.



Preferences -- Directories



Symbol Directory : /opt/edb-debugger

Plugin Directory : /lib64/edb

Session Directory : /opt/edb-debugger



That's all! See you.