How To Install cppcheck on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cppcheck
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cppcheck.
Install cppcheck on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cppcheck
using yum
by running the following command:
Install cppcheck on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cppcheck
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cppcheck on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cppcheck
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cppcheck
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.