How To Install topline on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install topline on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is topline
topline is:
This is a top-of-the-line logger of CPU usage patterns, designed for machines with ca. 50-300 total hardware threads (fewer works but results in a narrow graph, more requires a very wide terminal). Every per-tick sample is shown abusing Unicode characters to fit within a single line.
Disk usage is also shown in a similarly terse per-device way, as % utilization for reads and writes.
There are three methods to install topline on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install topline Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install topline using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install topline
Install topline Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install topline using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install topline
Install topline 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 topline using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install topline
How To Uninstall topline on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the topline package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove topline
Uninstall topline And Its Dependencies
To uninstall topline and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove topline
Remove topline Configurations and Data
To remove topline configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge topline
Remove topline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove topline configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topline
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install topline package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
