How To Install kcachegrind on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind on Kali Linux.
What is kcachegrind
kcachegrind is:
KCachegrind is a visualisation tool for the profiling data generated by calltree, a memory profiling tool for valgrind. Any executable can be profiled using calltree without being recompiled, including multi-threaded applications, shared libraries, and plugins.
For visualising the output from profiling tools other than Valgrind, several converters can be found in the kcachegrind-converters package.
This package is part of the KDE Software Development Kit module.
There are three methods to install kcachegrind 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kcachegrind using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kcachegrindInstall kcachegrind Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kcachegrind using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kcachegrindInstall kcachegrind 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 kcachegrind using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kcachegrindHow To Uninstall kcachegrind on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kcachegrind package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kcachegrindUninstall kcachegrind And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kcachegrind and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kcachegrindRemove kcachegrind Configurations and Data
To remove kcachegrind configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kcachegrindRemove kcachegrind configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kcachegrind configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kcachegrindDependencies
kcachegrind have the following dependencies:
- kio
- libc6
- libkf5archive5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5dbusaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5jobwidgets5
- libkf5kiocore5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcachegrind package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
