How To Install kcachegrind-converters on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind-converters on Ubuntu 18.04.
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
- hotshot2calltree: converts the pstat output of the hotshot Python profiler
- 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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind-converters package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.