How To Install ctop on Debian 10

Learn how to install ctop on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ctop is Command line / text based Linux Containers monitoring tool

Introduction

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

What is ctop

ctop is:

ctop will help you see what’s going on at the container level. Basically, containers are a logical group of processes isolated using kernel’s cgroups and namespaces. Recently, they have been made popular by Docker and they are also heavily used under the hood by systemd and a load of container tools like lxc, rocket, lmctfy and many others.

Under the hood, ctop will collect all metrics it can from cgroups in realtime and render them to instantly give you an overview of the global system health.

It currently collects metrics related to cpu, memory and block IO usage as well as metadata such as owning user (mostly for systemd based containers), uptime and attempts to guess the container managing technology behind.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ctop

Install ctop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ctop

Install ctop 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 ctop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ctop

How To Uninstall ctop on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ctop

Uninstall ctop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ctop

Remove ctop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ctop

Remove ctop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ctop

Dependencies

ctop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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