How To Install atop on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install atop on Kali Linux. atop is Monitor for system resources and process activity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install atop on Kali Linux.

What is atop

atop is:

Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes, and only shows the deviations since the previous interval. At regular intervals, it shows system-level activity related to the CPU, memory, swap, disks and network layers, and it shows for every active process the CPU utilization in system and user mode, the virtual and resident memory growth, priority, username, state, and exit code. The process level activity is also shown for processes which finished during the last interval, to get a complete overview about the consumers of things such as CPU time.

Author: Gerlof Langeveld [email protected]

There are three methods to install atop on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install atop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install atop

Install atop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install atop

Install atop Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install atop

How To Uninstall atop on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove atop

Uninstall atop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall atop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove atop

Remove atop Configurations and Data

To remove atop configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge atop

Remove atop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge atop

Dependencies

atop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install atop package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.