How To Install smemcap on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smemcap
on Debian 11.
What is smemcap
smemcap is:
Tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system.
This package contains smemcap utility, which can be used to collect data on resource constrained systems without depending on Python.
The captured data can be processed by smem program.
There are three methods to install smemcap
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install smemcap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smemcap
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smemcap
Install smemcap Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smemcap
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smemcap
Install smemcap 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 smemcap
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smemcap
How To Uninstall smemcap on Debian 11
To uninstall only the smemcap
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smemcap
Uninstall smemcap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smemcap
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smemcap
Remove smemcap Configurations and Data
To remove smemcap
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smemcap
Remove smemcap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smemcap
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smemcap
Dependencies
smemcap have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smemcap
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.