How To Install libdbix-profile-perl on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbix-profile-perl on Kali Linux. libdbix-profile-perl is DBI query profiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbix-profile-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libdbix-profile-perl

libdbix-profile-perl is:

DBIx::Profile is a quick and easy, and mostly transparent, profiler for scripts using DBI. It collects information on the query level, and keeps track of first, failed, normal, and total amounts (count, wall clock, CPU time) for each function on the query.

NOTE: DBIx::Profile use Time::HiRes to clock the wall time and the old standby times() to clock the CPU time. The CPU time is pretty coarse.

DBIx::Profile can also trace the execution of queries. It will print a timestamp and the query that was called. This is optional, and occurs only when the environment variable DBIXPROFILETRACE is set to 1. (ex: (bash) export DBIXPROFILETRACE=1).

There are three methods to install libdbix-profile-perl 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 libdbix-profile-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdbix-profile-perl

Install libdbix-profile-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdbix-profile-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdbix-profile-perl

Install libdbix-profile-perl 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 libdbix-profile-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdbix-profile-perl

How To Uninstall libdbix-profile-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libdbix-profile-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdbix-profile-perl

Uninstall libdbix-profile-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdbix-profile-perl

Remove libdbix-profile-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libdbix-profile-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdbix-profile-perl

Remove libdbix-profile-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdbix-profile-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdbix-profile-perl

Dependencies

libdbix-profile-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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