How To Install libasan10.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan10.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libasan10.x86_64 is The Address Sanitizer runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan10.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libasan10.x86_64`

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

We can use yum to install libasan10.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libasan10.x86_64.

Install libasan10.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libasan10.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libasan10.x86_64

How To Uninstall libasan10.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libasan10.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libasan10.x86_64

libasan10.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libasan.so.6
/usr/lib64/libasan.so.6.0.0

References

libasan10.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasan10.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.