How To Install kcachegrind-converters on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind-converters on Kali Linux.

What is kcachegrind-converters

kcachegrind-converters is:

This is a collection of scripts for converting the output from several different profiling tools into a format that KCachegrind can display.

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

The included scripts are:

• dprof2calltree: converts the tmon.out output of Perl’s Devel::DProf package
• memprof2calltree: converts the memory profiles of memprof
• op2calltree: converts the OProfile’s output of “opreport -gdf” (v 0.8)
• pprof2calltree: converts the pprof output from APD

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

There are three methods to install kcachegrind-converters 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 kcachegrind-converters 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-converters using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kcachegrind-converters

Install kcachegrind-converters Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kcachegrind-converters

Install kcachegrind-converters 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 kcachegrind-converters using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kcachegrind-converters

How To Uninstall kcachegrind-converters on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove kcachegrind-converters

Uninstall kcachegrind-converters And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kcachegrind-converters

Remove kcachegrind-converters Configurations and Data

To remove kcachegrind-converters configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kcachegrind-converters

Remove kcachegrind-converters configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kcachegrind-converters

Dependencies

kcachegrind-converters have the following dependencies:

• php-cli
• perl

References

• kcachegrind-converters website

Summary

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