How To Install ctop on debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ctop on debian 9.
What is ctop
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 ways to install ctop on debian 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ctop on debian 9 using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.