How To Install btop on Debian 12

Learn how to install btop on Debian 12 with this tutorial. btop is Modern and colorful command line resource monitor that shows usage and stats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install btop on Debian 12.

What is btop

btop is:

btop is a modern and colorful command line resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. btop features:

  • Easy to use, with a game inspired menu system.
  • Full mouse support, all buttons with a highlighted key is clickable and mouse scroll works in process list and menu boxes.
  • Fast and responsive UI with UP, DOWN keys process selection.
  • Function for showing detailed stats for selected process.
  • Ability to filter processes.
  • Easy switching between sorting options.
  • Tree view of processes.
  • Send any signal to selected process.
  • UI menu for changing all config file options.
  • Auto scaling graph for network usage.
  • Shows IO activity and speeds for disks
  • Battery meter
  • Selectable symbols for the graphs
  • Custom presets
  • And more… btop is written in C++ and is continuation of bashtop and bpytop.

There are three methods to install btop on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install btop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install btop

Install btop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install btop

Install btop 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 btop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install btop

How To Uninstall btop on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove btop

Uninstall btop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall btop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove btop

Remove btop Configurations and Data

To remove btop configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge btop

Remove btop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge btop

Dependencies

btop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install btop package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.