leak-analyze command not found

Introduction

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

leak-analyze: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: leak-analyze: command not found

Solutions to leak-analyze: command not found

How To Fix leak-analyze: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu leak-analyze 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 leak-analyze command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.