How To Install liblsan on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblsan on CentOS 8. liblsan is The Leak Sanitizer runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblsan on CentOS 8.

What is liblsan

This package contains the Leak Sanitizer library which is used for -fsanitize=leak instrumented programs.

We can use yum or dnf to install liblsan on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install liblsan.

Install liblsan on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install liblsan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liblsan

Install liblsan on CentOS 8 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install liblsan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liblsan

How To Uninstall liblsan on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the liblsan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove liblsan

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblsan on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.