kcachegrind command not found

Introduction

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

kcachegrind: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kcachegrind: command not found

Solutions to kcachegrind: command not found

How To Fix kcachegrind: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kcachegrind is provided by kcachegrind package.

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.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kcachegrind

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

You can also use apt command to install kcachegrind.

sudo apt -y install kcachegrind

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

sudo aptitude install kcachegrind

Summary

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