How To Install libasan on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan on Rocky Linux 8. libasan is The Address Sanitizer runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libasan

This package contains the Address Sanitizer library which is used for -fsanitize=address instrumented programs.

We can use yum or dnf to install libasan on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libasan.

Install libasan on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libasan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libasan

Install libasan on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libasan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libasan

How To Uninstall libasan on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libasan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libasan

libasan Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/7191a7ab7e1bc6826f6cb83f7d2f8a86beb03a
/usr/lib64/libasan.so.5
/usr/lib64/libasan.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/49c4148847bbd277fba4ce053907e1ebbc2938
/usr/lib/libasan.so.5
/usr/lib/libasan.so.5.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.