diff --git a/distro/adaptation-pkg/debian b/distro/adaptation-pkg/debian
index 17312fc02..85084c173 100644
--- a/distro/adaptation-pkg/debian
+++ b/distro/adaptation-pkg/debian
@@ -67,18 +67,18 @@ otc_ddt::
 packetdrill::
 pbzip2::
 pepc::
-perf-bench-futex: linux-perf
-perf-c2c: linux-perf
+perf::
+perf-bench-futex: perf
+perf-c2c: perf
 perf-event-tests::
-perf-mem: linux-perf
-perf-node: linux-perf
-perf-probe: linux-perf
-perf-profile: linux-perf
-perf-record-report: linux-perf
-perf-report-srcline: linux-perf
-perf-sanity-tests: linux-perf
-perf-stat: linux-perf
-perf: linux-perf
+perf-mem: perf
+perf-node: perf
+perf-probe: perf
+perf-profile: perf
+perf-record-report: perf
+perf-report-srcline: perf
+perf-sanity-tests: perf
+perf-stat: perf
 pft::
 phoronix-test-suite::
 phpbench::
diff --git a/distro/adaptation-pkg/ubuntu b/distro/adaptation-pkg/ubuntu
index cd427f4af..5b064b5cc 100644
--- a/distro/adaptation-pkg/ubuntu
+++ b/distro/adaptation-pkg/ubuntu
@@ -68,18 +68,18 @@ otc_ddt::
 packetdrill::
 pbzip2::
 pepc::
-perf-bench-futex: linux-tools-common
-perf-c2c: linux-tools-common
+perf-bench-futex: perf
+perf-c2c: perf
 perf-event-tests::
-perf-mem: linux-tools-common
-perf-node: linux-tools-common
-perf-probe: linux-tools-common
-perf-profile: linux-tools-common
-perf-record-report: linux-tools-common
-perf-report-srcline: linux-tools-common
-perf-sanity-tests: linux-tools-common
-perf-stat: linux-tools-common
-perf: linux-tools-common
+perf-mem: perf
+perf-node: perf
+perf-probe: perf
+perf-profile: perf
+perf-record-report: perf
+perf-report-srcline: perf
+perf-sanity-tests: perf
+perf-stat: perf
+perf::
 pft::
 phoronix-test-suite::
 phpbench::
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ turbostat: linux-tools-generic
 unixbench::
 uperf::
 v4l2::
-vm-scalability:: 
+vm-scalability::
 vmem::
 will-it-scale::
 xfstests::
diff --git a/lkp-exec/install b/lkp-exec/install
index 44d43f3c1..9638fd528 100755
--- a/lkp-exec/install
+++ b/lkp-exec/install
@@ -144,6 +144,20 @@ verify_install() {
 	local pkg=$1
 	local pkg_lkp=$pkg-lkp
 
+	# FIXME consider to put below mapping to adaptation
+	#
+	# These are not real packages in debian but are required commands, which are
+	# installed by the corresponding os packages. Need use the name of the os
+	# packages so that dpkg -V can do the right check. The other way is to use
+	# has_cmd to check installed or not, but "which perf" returns /usr/bin/perf that
+	# is a wrapper instead of actual perf.
+	#
+	# Here also use -f /.dockerenv as a hack to only do this inside docker to reduce
+	# unnecessary re-installation that requires clone the linux repo.
+	[ -f /.dockerenv -a $DISTRO = debian ] && {
+		[ "$pkg" = perf ] && pkg=linux-perf
+	}
+
 	case $DISTRO in
 		debian|ubuntu)
 			[[ ! $(dpkg -V "$pkg" 2>&1) ]] || [[ ! $(dpkg -V "${pkg_lkp}" 2>&1) ]];;