How To Install cephfs-top on Debian 12

Learn how to install cephfs-top on Debian 12 with this tutorial. cephfs-top is top like utility for Ceph filesystem

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cephfs-top on Debian 12.

What is cephfs-top

cephfs-top is:

Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.

This package provides a top(1) like utility to display various filesystem metrics in realtime.

This package contains utility for displaying filesystem metrics.

There are three methods to install cephfs-top 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 cephfs-top Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cephfs-top

Install cephfs-top Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cephfs-top

Install cephfs-top 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 cephfs-top using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cephfs-top

How To Uninstall cephfs-top on Debian 12

To uninstall only the cephfs-top package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cephfs-top

Uninstall cephfs-top And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cephfs-top

Remove cephfs-top Configurations and Data

To remove cephfs-top configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cephfs-top

Remove cephfs-top configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cephfs-top

Dependencies

cephfs-top have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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