How To Install hotshot2calltree on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install kdesdk-kcachegrind

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install kdesdk-kcachegrind

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is hotshot2calltree and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install hotshot2calltree on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install hotshot2calltree on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install hotshot2calltree using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kdesdk-kcachegrind

Install hotshot2calltree on CentOS 8 using yum

Because hotshot2calltree is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install hotshot2calltree package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kdesdk-kcachegrind

How to upgrade (update) a single package hotshot2calltree using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like hotshot2calltree in this example you should use the following command:

yum update kdesdk-kcachegrind

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade kdesdk-kcachegrind

How to Upgrade hotshot2calltree on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update kdesdk-kcachegrind

How To remove hotshot2calltree from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the hotshot2calltree package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove kdesdk-kcachegrind

Extra info and code examples

This is a collection of scripts for converting the output from several different profiling tools into a format that KCachegrind can display. KCachegrind is a visualisation tool for the profiling data generated by calltree, a memory profiling tool for valgrind. Executables can be profiled using calltree without being recompiled, including multi-threaded applications, shared libraries, and plugin architectures. The included scripts are: * dprof2calltree: converts the tmon.out output of Perl's Devel::DProf package * hotshot2calltree: converts the pstat output of the hotshot Python profiler * memprof2calltree: converts the memory profiles of memprof * op2calltree: converts the OProfile's output of "opreport -gdf" (v 0.8) * pprof2calltree: converts the pprof output from APD This package is part of the KDE Software Development Kit module.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install hotshot2calltree using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the hotshot2calltree from CentOS 8.

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