sprof command not found

Introduction

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

sprof: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sprof: command not found

Solutions to sprof: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sprof is provided by libc-devtools package.

libc-devtools is:

This package contains development tools shipped by the GNU C Library.

• memusage, memusagestat: profile a program’s memory usage
• mtrace: interpret the malloc trace log
• sotruss: trace shared library calls
• sprof: display shared object profiling data

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

sudo apt-get -y install libc-devtools

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

You can also use apt command to install libc-devtools.

sudo apt -y install libc-devtools

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

sudo aptitude install libc-devtools

Summary

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