How To Install valgrind on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install valgrind on CentOS 7.
What is valgrind
Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools. The Valgrind distribution currently includes six production-quality tools default tool), two thread error detectors (helgrind and drd), a cache and branch-prediction profiler (cachegrind), a call-graph generating cache and branch-prediction profiler (callgrind), and a heap profiler (massif). Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools. The Valgrind distribution currently includes six production-quality tools default tool), two thread error detectors (helgrind and drd), a cache and branch-prediction profiler (cachegrind), a call-graph generating cache and branch-prediction profiler (callgrind), and a heap profiler (massif).
We can use yum or dnf to install valgrind on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install valgrind.
Install valgrind on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install valgrind using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install valgrind
Install valgrind 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install valgrind using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install valgrind
How To Uninstall valgrind on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the valgrind package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove valgrind
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install valgrind on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
