Hello all,
I've sorta dabbled in linux a bit throughout the years and I'm currently working on a project where I am wanting to profile some PHP apps using xDebug. I have the cachegrind files but I am currently stuck on windows for most of development and was wanting to use Kcachegrind. I've tried the KDE for windows stuff and kcachegrind will run but won't open a file dialog.

So I figured the easier thing would be to just get a liveCD and run it in VMware Player. Half the distros I've tried won't work so I fell back to just using a liveCD on a different machine when its free. Since I currently don't have a spare machine to actually install linux, I had hoped that a LiveCD would be available. I've tried the latest Kubuntu and Suse but neither have Kcachegrind which I thought was part of the standard KDE install.

Ideally a small distro with KDE, the usb drivers and kCachegrind (and its dependancies) would be all that I need for now that can run in a VM of some sort. A full LiveCD will work (Kubuntu seems a lot faster than Suse) but I'd rather not have to tie up a machine other than my dev box.

On a side note, how do most people find the list of packages that distros have? Searching google brought up a lot of results that looked like svn directories that had kcachegrind in the livecds I downloaded but the program just isn't there (that I can find). While I love the concept of linux and the user interface is getting a lot better (even my wife liked how Gnome and KDE looked, if only it ran Sims 3) seeking out this one simple program has just seemed very difficult.

Make your own...

Any linux live-cd will have a limited number of program packages included on the CD. It is however possible to add and subtract packages and to compose your own live-cd/dvd compilation.

This is for openSUSE, but it can be done with about any linux that will boot live. Google will give you many howtos on making your own.

http://susestudio.com/

Kcachegrind is probably in all the repositories for major distributions using KDE, but doubtfully on any live-cd.

However, someone may have put just that collection of packages together in a live-cd that would naturally includes Kcachegrind, but if not, you can be the first.

Since Kubuntu is Ubuntu, it is easy to boot a live-cd, modify it and then save the new version in a bootable USB flash. This is even with Windows.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-kub...stall-windows/

The Pendrivelinux.com site has several guides on putting linux on a stick.

Hmm, I didn't know you could do that sort of thing. I'll give a try and see how it works. Thanks Thorkelljarl.

I used the susestudio and was able to make a VMware appliance with kcachegrind and grabbed VMware Player 3 and yay, its working.

Yay...

Congrats.