How To Install cg_merge on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install valgrind-dbg

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install valgrind-dbg

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is cg_merge and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install cg_merge on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install cg_merge on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install cg_merge using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install valgrind-dbg

Install cg_merge on CentOS 8 using yum

Because cg_merge is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install cg_merge package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install valgrind-dbg

How to upgrade (update) a single package cg_merge using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like cg_merge in this example you should use the following command:

yum update valgrind-dbg

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade valgrind-dbg

How to Upgrade cg_merge on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update valgrind-dbg

How To remove cg_merge from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cg_merge package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove valgrind-dbg

Extra info and code examples

Valgrind is a system for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With its tool suite you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting and making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed profiling to help speed up your programs and use Valgrind to build new tools. The Valgrind distribution currently includes six production-quality tools: * a memory error detector (Memcheck) * two thread error detectors (Helgrind and DRD) * a cache and branch-prediction profiler (Cachegrind) * a call-graph generating cache and branch-prediction profiler (Callgrind) * a heap profiler (Massif) It also includes three experimental tools: * a stack/global array overrun detector (SGCheck) * a second heap profiler that examines how heap blocks are used (DHAT) * a SimPoint basic block vector generator (BBV)

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install cg_merge using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the cg_merge from CentOS 8.

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