How To Install speedometer on Debian 10

Learn how to install speedometer on Debian 10 with this tutorial. speedometer is measure and display the rate of data across a network connection

Introduction

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

What is speedometer

speedometer is:

Monitor network traffic or speed/progress of a file transfer. The program can be used for cases like:

  • how long it will take for 38 MiB transfer to finish
  • how quickly is another transfer going
  • how fast is the upstream on this ADSL line
  • how fast is data written to a filesystem.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install speedometer

Install speedometer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install speedometer

Install speedometer 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 speedometer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install speedometer

How To Uninstall speedometer on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove speedometer

Uninstall speedometer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove speedometer

Remove speedometer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge speedometer

Remove speedometer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speedometer

Dependencies

speedometer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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