# Anyone know how to get perf going?

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-get-perf-going/42502>\
**Category:** Jetson TX1\
**Created:** [April 26, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-get-perf-going/42502 "2016-04-26T20:27:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaminsknator](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@kaminsknator](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/kaminsknator)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-get-perf-going/42502/1 "2016-04-26T20:27:56Z")

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I’m trying to install PERF on my jetson tx1 development board. uname -r returns: 3.10.67-g458d45c when i run the perf command I get

WARNING: perf not found for kernel 3.10.67  
You may need to install the following packages for this pecific kernel:  
linux-tools-3.10.67  
You may also want to install one of the following packages to keep up to date:  
linux-tools

when I try sudo apt-get install inux-tools-generic it goes through reading package lists and building dependency tree then states: linux-tools-generic is already the newest version.

I dont have a ton of experience in linux but would love to get this tool going. Any help is appreciated.

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**Author:** ![dkryder](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@dkryder](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/dkryder)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-get-perf-going/42502/2 "2016-04-27T07:38:14Z")

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you can install synaptic package control to determine what packages are available for the kernel you have.

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**Author:** ![kaminsknator](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@kaminsknator](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/kaminsknator)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-get-perf-going/42502/3 "2016-04-27T18:45:10Z")

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I installed synaptic package manager though linux-tools-3.10.67 is not listed as available anyone know a workaround to get perf going? PerfKit appears to be for gpu and i’m interested in CPU