sysprof-cli command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sysprof-cli command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

sysprof-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sysprof-cli: command not found

Solutions to sysprof-cli: command not found

How To Fix sysprof-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sysprof-cli is provided by sysprof package.

sysprof is:

Sysprof is a sampling CPU profiler that uses a ptrace in Linux kernel to profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof handles shared libraries and applications do not need to be recompiled. In fact they don’t even have to be restarted.

It has the following features:

profiles all running processes, not just a single application
has a simple graphical interface
shows the time spent in each branch of the call tree
profiles can be loaded and saved

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install sysprof

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install sysprof.

sudo apt -y install sysprof

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install sysprof

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sysprof-cli command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.