How To Install jitterdebugger on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jitterdebugger on Kali Linux.

What is jitterdebugger

jitterdebugger is:

jitterdebugger measures wake up latencies and able to store all samples for post-processing.

It starts a thread on each CPU which programs a timer and measures the time it takes from the timer expiring until the thread which set the timer runs again.

This tool is a reimplementation of cyclictest. It doesn’t have all the command line options as cyclictest which results are easy to get wrong and therefore an invalid latency report.

There are three methods to install jitterdebugger 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 jitterdebugger Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install jitterdebugger

Install jitterdebugger Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install jitterdebugger

Install jitterdebugger 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 update

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

sudo aptitude -y install jitterdebugger

How To Uninstall jitterdebugger on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove jitterdebugger

Uninstall jitterdebugger And Its Dependencies

To uninstall jitterdebugger and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove jitterdebugger

Remove jitterdebugger Configurations and Data

To remove jitterdebugger configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge jitterdebugger

Remove jitterdebugger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jitterdebugger

Dependencies

jitterdebugger have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• jitterdebugger website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jitterdebugger package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.