No gdb?

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Fri Dec 12 17:22:03 UTC 2008


Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've just been told
> 
> A Fatal Error Occurred
> The application KDE Daemon (kded4) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
> 
> It went on to say that it couldn't create a bug report, as gdb is not 
> installed.  Shouldn't that be installed by default?

It is if you install the "Software Development" group of apps.  If
you're a desktop user and not a developer you probably don't need gdb
in most cases.  gdb isn't huge (~3.6MB), so yeah, it could be included
but it's not.
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