How To Install iotop on Debian 10

Learn how to install iotop on Debian 10 with this tutorial. iotop is simple top-like I/O monitor

Introduction

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

What is iotop

iotop is:

iotop does for I/O usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system. It is handy for answering the question “Why is the disk churning so much?”.

iotop can only run under a Linux 2.6.20 or later kernel built with the CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS build config options on.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install iotop

Install iotop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install iotop

Install iotop 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 iotop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iotop

How To Uninstall iotop on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove iotop

Uninstall iotop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iotop

Remove iotop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge iotop

Remove iotop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iotop

Dependencies

iotop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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