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Installing Valgrind on a 3.x Kernel

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I was reading Learn C the Hard Way when I stumbled upon and followed the instructions for installing Valgrind, the C debugger. However, when I ran ./configure to setup build configurations, I got

checking for the kernel version... unsupported (3.0.0-17-generic)

configure: error: Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6

I am running Ubuntu 11.10, on the kernel Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64.

The answer may be obvious but I'm not acquainted with Linux: How do I get Valgrind working on my computer? Thanks.

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answered 1 Year ago gavgenerati · Accepted Answer

Valgrind is installable from repository(tested on 12.04 running kernel 3.2.x). sudo apt-get install valgrind. Also available in 11.10 according to this.

Just an additional note, it's not a debugger. It's a memory fault detector.