Information about the package, valgrind, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The valgrind package is designed for, Tool for finding memory management bugs in programs.
Package Name:
valgrind
Summary:
Tool for finding memory management bugs in programs
Description:
Valgrind is a tool to help you find memory-management problems in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can detect a lot of problems that are otherwise very hard to find/diagnose.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.8.1
Release:
9.el6
Size:
38 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the valgrind package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install valgrind
This command will install valgrind on the server.
yum remove valgrind
This command will un-install valgrind on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove valgrind, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove valgrind
This command will un-install valgrind on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove valgrind when using the -y flag.
yum update valgrind
This command will update valgrind to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove valgrind, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update valgrind
This command will update valgrind to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove valgrind when using the -y flag.
yum info valgrind
This command will show you core information about the valgrind package.
yum deplist valgrind
This command will show you the dependencies for valgrind. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update valgrind
This command will check if there is an update waiting on valgrind. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.