How To Install cppcheck on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cppcheck on CentOS 8.
What is cppcheck
Cppcheck is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code. Unlike C/C++ compilers and many other analysis tools it does not detect syntax errors in the code. Cppcheck primarily detects the types of bugs that the compilers normally do not detect. The goal is to detect only real errors in the code (i.e. have zero false positives).
We can use yum or dnf to install cppcheck on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cppcheck.
Install cppcheck 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 cppcheck using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cppcheck
Install cppcheck 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 cppcheck using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cppcheck
How To Uninstall cppcheck on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cppcheck package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cppcheck
cppcheck Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/cppcheck
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/22154af6112a4125195bc978f6b814e56eafec
/usr/share/CppCheck
/usr/share/CppCheck/avr.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/bsd.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/cppcheck-lib.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/embedded_sql.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/gnu.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/gtk.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_de.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_es.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_fi.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_fr.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_it.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_ja.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_ko.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_nl.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_ru.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_sr.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_sv.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/cppcheck_zh_CN.qm
/usr/share/CppCheck/microsoft_sal.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/motif.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/posix.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/qt.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/sdl.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/sfml.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/std.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/windows.cfg
/usr/share/CppCheck/wxwidgets.cfg
/usr/share/doc/cppcheck
/usr/share/doc/cppcheck/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cppcheck/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cppcheck/manual.html
/usr/share/man/man1/cppcheck.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cppcheck on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
