How To Install loadmeter on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install loadmeter
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is loadmeter
loadmeter is:
Loadmeter is an attractive X11 based system monitor. It displays load average, uptime, disk and memory usages. It uses a coloured bar graph display for easy reading and popup menus for other info. It uses less memory than xload.
There are three methods to install loadmeter
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install loadmeter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install loadmeter
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install loadmeter
Install loadmeter Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install loadmeter
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install loadmeter
Install loadmeter 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install loadmeter
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install loadmeter
How To Uninstall loadmeter on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the loadmeter
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove loadmeter
Uninstall loadmeter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall loadmeter
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove loadmeter
Remove loadmeter Configurations and Data
To remove loadmeter
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge loadmeter
Remove loadmeter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove loadmeter
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge loadmeter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install loadmeter
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.