How To Install kcachegrind on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind on Debian 11. kcachegrind is visualisation tool for the Valgrind profiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind on Debian 11.

What is kcachegrind

kcachegrind is:

KCachegrind is a visualisation tool for the profiling data generated by calltree, a memory profiling tool for valgrind. Any executable can be profiled using calltree without being recompiled, including multi-threaded applications, shared libraries, and plugins.

For visualising the output from profiling tools other than Valgrind, several converters can be found in the kcachegrind-converters package.

This package is part of the KDE Software Development Kit module.

There are three methods to install kcachegrind on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kcachegrind Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kcachegrind using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kcachegrind

Install kcachegrind Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kcachegrind using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kcachegrind

Install kcachegrind Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install kcachegrind using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kcachegrind

How To Uninstall kcachegrind on Debian 11

To uninstall only the kcachegrind package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kcachegrind

Uninstall kcachegrind And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kcachegrind and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kcachegrind

Remove kcachegrind Configurations and Data

To remove kcachegrind configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kcachegrind

Remove kcachegrind configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kcachegrind configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kcachegrind

Dependencies

kcachegrind have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.