cg_annotate command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix cg_annotate command not found error message

Introduction

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

cg_annotate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cg_annotate: command not found

Solutions to cg_annotate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cg_annotate is provided by valgrind package.

valgrind is:

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)

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

sudo apt-get -y install valgrind

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

You can also use apt command to install valgrind.

sudo apt -y install valgrind

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

sudo aptitude install valgrind

Summary

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