How To Install libsanitizer.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsanitizer.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libsanitizer.i686 is Sanitizer runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsanitizer.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libsanitizer.i686`

This package contains sanitizer libraries which are automatically used when the appropriate -fsanitize option is used for instrumented programs -fsanitize=address will use the Address Sanitizer (libasan) -fsanitize=thread will use the Thread Sanitizer (libtsan) -fsanitize=undefined will use the Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer (libubsan) -fsanitize=leak will use the Leak Sanitizer library (liblsan)

We can use yum to install libsanitizer.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsanitizer.i686.

Install libsanitizer.i686 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 libsanitizer.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsanitizer.i686

How To Uninstall libsanitizer.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libsanitizer.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libsanitizer.i686

libsanitizer.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libasan.so.4
/usr/lib/libasan.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/libubsan.so.0
/usr/lib/libubsan.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libsanitizer-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libsanitizer-7.3.1/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/licenses/libsanitizer-7.3.1
/usr/share/licenses/libsanitizer-7.3.1/LICENSE.TXT

References

libsanitizer.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsanitizer.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.