How To Install oprofile on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install oprofile on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is oprofile
oprofile is:
OProfile is a performance profiling tool for Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead. It consists of a daemon for collecting sample data, plus several post-profiling tools for turning data into information.
OProfile leverages the hardware performance counters of the CPU to enable profiling of a wide variety of interesting statistics, which can also be used for basic time-spent profiling. All code is profiled: hardware and software interrupt handlers, kernel modules, the kernel, shared libraries, and applications (the only exception being the OProfile interrupt handler itself). Note that different architectures can use different hardware mechanisms to collect data.
OProfile is currently in alpha status; however it has proven stable over a large number of differing configurations. As always, there is no warranty.
There are three methods to install oprofile on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install oprofile Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install oprofile using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oprofile
Install oprofile Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install oprofile using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oprofile
Install oprofile 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 oprofile using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oprofile
How To Uninstall oprofile on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the oprofile package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oprofile
Uninstall oprofile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall oprofile and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove oprofile
Remove oprofile Configurations and Data
To remove oprofile configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oprofile
Remove oprofile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove oprofile configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oprofile
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oprofile package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
