How to get perf fully working with all features?
Regarding:
Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!
I had the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04. TL;DR the error message is benign.
The tips.txt file comes from: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
As described in the original commit the purpose of this file is to show a random usage tip on the help line.
So if you wanted to get rid of the message, copy the appropriate
tips.txt to /usr/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt.