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Answer: How to install valgrind properly?

answer re: How to install valgrind properly?
Aug 3 '18
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Short answer: Make from source.

How?

  1. Uninstall the non working valgrind version with root rights (eg. sudo):

apt-get --purge valgrind or dpkg --remove valgrind or yum remove valgrind

  1. Obtain sources from here.

  2. Identify the latest version (for example 3.17.0)

  3. Download sources : wget https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/valgrind-3.17.0.tar.bz2

  4. Decompress archive tar xvf…

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