How To Install heaptrack-gui on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install heaptrack-gui on Kali Linux.
What is heaptrack-gui
heaptrack-gui is:
Heap memory usage profiler. It uses LD_PRELOAD to track all calls to the core memory allocation functions and logs these occurrences. Additionally, backtraces are obtained and logged. It can also generate a historigram of allocation sizes over the number of calls. Heaptrack measures the following:
- Heap memory consumption (like Massif).
- Number of calls to allocation functions (like callgrind).
- Total amount of memory allocated, ignoring deallocations.
- Leaked memory (like memcheck).
Heaptrack is notable for it’s ability to attach to running processes, for consuming substantially less memory than Valgrind, and for not reducing an application’s interactivity as much as Valgrind does. Heaptrack is useful for debugging memory leaks and memory ballooning.
The package contains the GUI for data analysis.
There are three methods to install heaptrack-gui on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install heaptrack-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install heaptrack-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install heaptrack-guiInstall heaptrack-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install heaptrack-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install heaptrack-guiInstall heaptrack-gui Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install heaptrack-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install heaptrack-guiHow To Uninstall heaptrack-gui on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the heaptrack-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove heaptrack-guiUninstall heaptrack-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall heaptrack-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove heaptrack-guiRemove heaptrack-gui Configurations and Data
To remove heaptrack-gui configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge heaptrack-guiRemove heaptrack-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove heaptrack-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heaptrack-guiDependencies
heaptrack-gui have the following dependencies:
- kio
- libboost-iostreams1.74.0
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libkchart2
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5itemmodels5
- libkf5kiowidgets5
- libkf5threadweaver5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install heaptrack-gui package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.