unable to install cppchecker with yum/apt-get

[Prasad Gattu]

Hi Team ,

I am using container image where I am trying to install the cppchecker using yum/apt-get but I am getting below message. How to use this software on linux machines?

• apt-get install cppcheck
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  E: Unable to locate package cppcheck

Thanks,
Prasad.

[Daniel Marjamäki]

that is very strange. what specific distro do you use? is it some rare architecture?
does it help if you run apt-get update first?

[Prasad Gattu]

Iam using python python:2.7.17 container available in dockerhub . I will try to do that apt-get update

[Prasad Gattu]

Iam using python python:2.7.17 container available in dockerhub . I will try to do that apt-get update

[Prasad Gattu]

it worked. I am getting 2.3 verison of cppcheck, how to get the latest version? How to use it from on ubuntu/linux https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/releases/tag/2.9

[Daniel Marjamäki]

Iam using python python:2.7.17 container available in dockerhub

that is probably pretty old.

Personally I would compile latest cppcheck. its quite easy. Example:

wget https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/archive/refs/tags/2.9.tar.gz
tar xzvf 2.9.tar.gz
cd cppcheck-2.9
make MATCHCOMPILER=yes CXXFLAGS=-O2
=> you will get a cppcheck binary in current folder.

[Daniel Marjamäki]

or use a later ubuntu image for cppcheck analysis

[Prasad Gattu]

Though I used python:3.6 I am not able to get the latest version. I hope above steps works in this image and or they specific to any platform? I will try and let you know. Thank you for your assistance.

[Prasad Gattu]

Hi Daniel Marjamäki,

I want to ignore a specific directory while scanning the cpp files, how to ignore the directory? -i option is not working actually. Above make process worked for me.

Thanks
prasad.