How To Install g15stats on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install g15stats on Debian 9. g15stats is a CPU/Memory/Swap usage meter for G15Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install g15stats on Debian 9.

What is g15stats

g15stats is:

The packages provides the following usage meter for LCD on some Logitech keyboards, usind g15daemon:

CPU Screen displays graphs of User/System/Nice and Idle time, along with LoadAVG and Uptime.

Memory Screen displays Memory Total & Free, and graph of Used vs Buffered+Cached Memory.

Swap Screen displays Used, Free and Total swap space, along with the number of pages currently paged in/out.

Network Screen displays Total bytes In/Out, history graph, Peak speed.

There are three methods to install g15stats on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install g15stats Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install g15stats using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install g15stats

Install g15stats Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install g15stats using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install g15stats

Install g15stats Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install g15stats using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install g15stats

How To Uninstall g15stats on Debian 9

To uninstall only the g15stats package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove g15stats

Uninstall g15stats And Its Dependencies

To uninstall g15stats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove g15stats

Remove g15stats Configurations and Data

To remove g15stats configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge g15stats

Remove g15stats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove g15stats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge g15stats

Dependencies

g15stats have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install g15stats package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.