How To Install radeontop on Debian 10

Learn how to install radeontop on Debian 10 with this tutorial. radeontop is Utility to show Radeon GPU utilization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install radeontop on Debian 10.

What is radeontop

radeontop is:

radeontop is a small utility which allows one to monitor the utilization of Radeon GPUs starting from the R600 series and newer using undocumented performance counters in the hardware. The utility works with the free drivers.

It displays the utilization of the graphics pipe, event engine, vertex cache, vertex group and tesselator, texture addresser and cache, the shader units and more, both with a relative percent value as well as a colorful bar diagram.

There are three methods to install radeontop on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install radeontop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install radeontop

Install radeontop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install radeontop

Install radeontop 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 radeontop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install radeontop

How To Uninstall radeontop on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove radeontop

Uninstall radeontop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall radeontop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove radeontop

Remove radeontop Configurations and Data

To remove radeontop configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge radeontop

Remove radeontop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radeontop

Dependencies

radeontop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install radeontop package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.