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ddd


Information about the package, ddd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ddd package is designed for, GUI for several command-line debuggers.


Package Name:

ddd

Summary:

GUI for several command-line debuggers

Description:

The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular GUI for command-line debuggers like GDB, DBX, JDB, WDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, and the Python debugger. DDD allows you to view source texts and provides an interactive graphical data display, in which data structures are displayed as graphs. You can use your mouse to dereference pointers or view structure contents, which are updated every time the program stops. DDD can debug programs written in Ada, C, C++, Chill, Fortran, Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl, and Python. DDD provides machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, watchpoint, backtrace, and history editors; array plots; undo and redo; preferences and settings editors; program execution in the terminal emulation window, debugging on a remote host, an on-line manual, extensive help on the Motif user interface, and a command-line interface with full editing, history and completion capabilities.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.3.12

Release:

6.el6

Size:

1.4 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for ddd


Control the ddd package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install ddd

This command will install ddd on the server.

yum remove ddd

This command will un-install ddd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ddd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove ddd

This command will un-install ddd on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ddd when using the -y flag.

yum update ddd

This command will update ddd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ddd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update ddd

This command will update ddd to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ddd when using the -y flag.

yum info ddd

This command will show you core information about the ddd package.

yum deplist ddd

This command will show you the dependencies for ddd. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update ddd

This command will check if there is an update waiting on ddd. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.