perf-tools is a set of performance analysis tools for Linux. It provides a set of scripts and tools written in Perl and C that allow you to analyze the performance of the system. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install perf-tools on Ubuntu Server Latest.
Before starting, make sure you have the following:
The first step is to update the system to the latest packages. To do so, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
To build perf-tools, you need to install some required packages. To install them, run the following command:
sudo apt install -y git cmake libssl-dev libncurses5-dev libelf-dev moreutils
Now you need to clone the perf-tools repository from Github. To do so, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools.git
To build and install perf-tools, change to the perf-tools directory and run the following commands:
cd perf-tools
sudo make install
After completing the installation, verify that perf-tools is installed correctly by running the following command:
sudo perf --version
If everything is installed correctly, you should see output similar to the following:
perf version 4.15.18.pkt00 (built from eca5af5fcb77)
In this tutorial, you learned how to install perf-tools on Ubuntu Server Latest. Now you can use perf-tools to analyze the performance of your Linux system.
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