# Gettting Valgrind working on Artix Linux

> Source: <https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/valgrind-artix-linux/>
> Published: 2023-08-30 01:38:32+00:00

I’m currently working on developing an implementation of the Concurrent Atomistic-Continuum method using C++ and CUDA to accelerate calculations.
A need arose to use valgrind
for debugging some memory issues.
I currently run Artix Linux and it turns out that both Artix Linux and Arch Linux have fully removed all debug packages from their repositories and have swapped over to a debuginfod
style system.
On my system, said debuginfod
was working with gdb
but not with valgrind
.
In particular I was missing the debug symbols for glibc
which prevented valgrind
from working at all.
I had to try a few things before I got it working so I want to share how I did.
I also want to mention an issue I ran into if any guys from Artix Linux ever end up reading this post.