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How do I install Cppcheck using tar file in Linux?

I am trying to install Cppcheck via telnet on Linux. I have a cppcheck-1.67.tar file and I am unpacking it. I don't see anything that sets this up for me. Am I approaching this correctly?

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  1. Download the file from there https://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcheck/

  2. Go to the download folder

    cd ~/Downloads/

  3. Unpack archive

    tar -xvf cppcheck-1.76.1.tar.bz2

  4. Go to the unpacked folder

    cd cppcheck-1.76.1/

  5. Install package as root

    sudo make install

  6. Check the result

    $ which cppcheck
/usr/bin/cppcheck

  7. Testing this

    $ touch simple.c
$ echo "int main(){ int a; a + 1; return 0}" > simple.c
$ cppcheck simple.c
Checking simple.c ...
[simple.c:1]: (error) Uninitialized variable: a

This package also exists in the standard repository.



$ aptitude search cppcheck
p   cppcheck                      - tool for static C/C++ code analysis

Test environment

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie)
Release:    8.6
Codename:    jessie
$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Instructions are in readme.txt

. The short answer is make install

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Remember to never install things from a tar file when you can use your distribution package manager.

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The readme.txt file does not mention "make install".

It looks like the supplied Makefile is running:

  • It passes the "CFG =" parameter to compile without DESTDIR

  • But "make install" adds DESTDIR to CFGDIR

In my case, I edited the Makefile to remove DESTDIR from make install and cppcheck is happy with that.

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For me, the magic lines turned out to be the following in Docker on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver):

RUN cd /tmp \
    && git clone https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck.git \
    && cd cppcheck \
    && git checkout 1.72 \
    && make SRCDIR=build CFGDIR=/usr/bin/cfg HAVE_RULES=yes install \
    && cd /tmp \
    && rm -rf /tmp/cppcheck \
    && ldconfig

I assume the following will work for any version. I'm not sure where it makes sense to set the config. This works for me:

make SRCDIR=build CFGDIR=/usr/bin/cfg HAVE_RULES=yes install
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If you don't have sudo

privileges you can follow @ Seti Volkylany's answer , step 5 replacing

OUT_PATH=/home/user/bin  # target location of binary
make SRCDIR=build CFGDIR=~/Downloads/cppcheck-1.76.1/cfg PREFIX=$OUT_PATH
make install CFGDIR=$OUT_PATH/cppcheck-1.76.1/cfg PREFIX=$OUT_PATH
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