How To Install clang-analyzer on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-analyzer on CentOS 8.
What is clang-analyzer
The Clang Static Analyzer consists of both a source code analysis framework and a standalone tool that finds bugs in C and Objective-C programs. The standalone tool is invoked from the command-line, and is intended to run in tandem with a build of a project or code base.
We can use yum or dnf to install clang-analyzer on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clang-analyzer.
Install clang-analyzer on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install clang-analyzer using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clang-analyzer
Install clang-analyzer on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install clang-analyzer using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clang-analyzer
How To Uninstall clang-analyzer on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the clang-analyzer package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clang-analyzer
clang-analyzer Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/scan-build
/usr/bin/scan-view
/usr/libexec/c++-analyzer
/usr/libexec/ccc-analyzer
/usr/share/man/man1/scan-build.1.gz
/usr/share/scan-build
/usr/share/scan-build/scanview.css
/usr/share/scan-build/sorttable.js
/usr/share/scan-view
/usr/share/scan-view/FileRadar.scpt
/usr/share/scan-view/GetRadarVersion.scpt
/usr/share/scan-view/Reporter.py
/usr/share/scan-view/ScanView.py
/usr/share/scan-view/bugcatcher.ico
/usr/share/scan-view/startfile.py
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-analyzer on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.