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I was trying to upgrade my edb debugger from 0.9 to 1.0. I cloned the repo from github, compiled it and installed it. Unfortunately I forgot to uninstall the old version itself so I ran into some problems. Ithen decided to remove all of edb and start from scratch. I did all sorts of sudo commands (i.e. purge autoremove etc) yet the edb icon is still in my applications menu and works (to a degree cause then I get failed to load necessary plugin). Probably help to mention that I used cmake to compile and install the newer version.

So the question is how do I go about removing all of edb and start over ?

idzireit

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This will remove the edb-debugger package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove edb-debugger

If you also want to delete your local/config files for edb-debugger then this will work.

sudo apt-get purge edb-debugger

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove edb-debugger

To fully install edb-debugger ,follow this link https://github.com/eteran/edb-debugger/wiki/Installing

Or else try this in your terminal

sudo apt-get install edb-debugger

If this process do not work, please comment below

Lalana Chamika
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  • going over the processes again I am still unable to fully remove edb. it is still in my app menu and running until it can not find the symbols – idzireit Apr 23 '19 at 14:48
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I have made a very ugly work around o get it working without any errors. When it loads up I changed the symbol directory to point at the symbol directory from the build. In my case this would be the following: /home/USERNAME/edb-debugger/build/plugins/SymbolViewer/CMakeFiles/SymbolViewer_autogen.dir

Then I did the same with the plugin directroy and made it point to: /home/USERNAME/edb-debugger/build

I left the third directory (Session Directory) alone. Might play around with that at a later date but it is working even though loaded with ugly hacks.

If anyone has any better answers please advise how to prettify this fix up some.

idzireit
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