How To Install snetz on Debian 10

Learn how to install snetz on Debian 10 with this tutorial. snetz is simple live network bandwidth monitoring tool

Introduction

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

What is snetz

snetz is:

Snetz is a small and simple live network bandwidth monitoring tool.

This tool get some values from the pseudo-file “/proc/net/dev” and and generate a report on the standard output.

There are three methods to install snetz 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 snetz Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install snetz

Install snetz Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install snetz

Install snetz 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 snetz using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install snetz

How To Uninstall snetz on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove snetz

Uninstall snetz And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove snetz

Remove snetz Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge snetz

Remove snetz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snetz

Dependencies

snetz have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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