LeakCheck command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

LeakCheck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: LeakCheck: command not found

Solutions to LeakCheck: command not found

How To Fix LeakCheck: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu LeakCheck is provided by leaktracer package.

leaktracer is:

LeakTracer traces calls to new and delete, and reports inconsistencies in the C++-level memory-management.

It has limitations (eg. when you override the new and delete operators yourself), but is very easy to use (eg. compared to more complete tools like mpatrol), traces the C++ level (unlike most other tools), and gives pretty good results.

It uses gdb to display source-file information.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install leaktracer

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install leaktracer.

sudo apt -y install leaktracer

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install leaktracer

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix LeakCheck command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.