How To Install btop on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install btop
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove btop
Remove btop Configurations and Data
To remove btop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install btop
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.