How To Install libsanitizer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsanitizer.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsanitizer.x86_64 is Sanitizer runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsanitizer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libsanitizer.x86_64`

This package contains sanitizer libraries which are automatically used when the appropriate -fsanitize option is used for instrumented programs -fsanitize=address will use the Address Sanitizer (libasan) -fsanitize=thread will use the Thread Sanitizer (libtsan) -fsanitize=undefined will use the Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer (libubsan) -fsanitize=leak will use the Leak Sanitizer library (liblsan)

We can use yum to install libsanitizer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsanitizer.x86_64.

Install libsanitizer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libsanitizer.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsanitizer.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsanitizer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libsanitizer.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libsanitizer.x86_64

libsanitizer.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libasan.so.4
/usr/lib64/libasan.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib64/liblsan.so.0
/usr/lib64/liblsan.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libtsan.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtsan.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libubsan.so.0
/usr/lib64/libubsan.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libsanitizer-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libsanitizer-7.3.1/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/licenses/libsanitizer-7.3.1
/usr/share/licenses/libsanitizer-7.3.1/LICENSE.TXT

References

libsanitizer.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsanitizer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.