google-pprof command not found

Introduction

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

google-pprof: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: google-pprof: command not found

Solutions to google-pprof: command not found

How To Fix google-pprof: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu google-pprof is provided by google-perftools package.

google-perftools is:

The gperftools, previously called google-perftools, package contains some utilities to improve and analyze the performance of C++ programs. This is a part of that package, and includes command line utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install google-perftools

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

You can also use apt command to install google-perftools.

sudo apt -y install google-perftools

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

sudo aptitude install google-perftools

Summary

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