How To Install splint on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install splint on Fedora 34.
What is splint
Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for coding errors and security vulnerabilities. With minimal effort, Splint can be used as a better lint. If additional effort is invested adding annotations to programs, Splint can perform even stronger checks than can be done by any standard lint.
We can use yum or dnf to install splint on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install splint.
Install splint on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install splint using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install splint
Install splint on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install splint using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install splint
How To Uninstall splint on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the splint package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove splint
splint Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/splint
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/ee6bf3bd6913d7afc0161b669e92805794f3da
/usr/share/doc/splint
/usr/share/doc/splint/README
/usr/share/doc/splint/manual.pdf
/usr/share/doc/splint/splintrc.demo
/usr/share/man/man1/splint.1.gz
/usr/share/splint
/usr/share/splint/imports
/usr/share/splint/imports/assert.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/assert.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/ctype.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/ctype.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/errno.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/errno.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/limits.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/limits.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/locale.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/locale.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/math.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/math.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/setjmp.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/setjmp.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/signal.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/signal.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/stdarg.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/stdarg.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/stdio.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/stdio.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/stdlib.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/stdlib.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/string.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/string.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/strings.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/strings.lcs
/usr/share/splint/imports/time.lcl
/usr/share/splint/imports/time.lcs
/usr/share/splint/lib
/usr/share/splint/lib/CTrait.syms
/usr/share/splint/lib/CTraitGen.lcl
/usr/share/splint/lib/bool.h
/usr/share/splint/lib/file.mts
/usr/share/splint/lib/file.xh
/usr/share/splint/lib/filerw.mts
/usr/share/splint/lib/filerw.xh
/usr/share/splint/lib/lclinit.lci
/usr/share/splint/lib/linux.h
/usr/share/splint/lib/lslinit.lsi
/usr/share/splint/lib/posix.h
/usr/share/splint/lib/posix.lcd
/usr/share/splint/lib/posixstrict.lcd
/usr/share/splint/lib/standard.h
/usr/share/splint/lib/standard.lcd
/usr/share/splint/lib/standardstrict.lcd
/usr/share/splint/lib/stdio.h
/usr/share/splint/lib/stdlib.h
/usr/share/splint/lib/tainted.mts
/usr/share/splint/lib/tainted.xh
/usr/share/splint/lib/unix.h
/usr/share/splint/lib/unix.lcd
/usr/share/splint/lib/unixstrict.lcd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install splint on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.