How To Install g15stats on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install g15stats on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is g15stats
g15stats is:
The packages provides the following usage meter for LCD on some Logitech keyboards, usind g15daemon:
CPU Screen displays graphs of User/System/Nice and Idle time, along with LoadAVG and Uptime.
Memory Screen displays Memory Total & Free, and graph of Used vs Buffered+Cached Memory.
Swap Screen displays Used, Free and Total swap space, along with the number of pages currently paged in/out.
Network Screen displays Total bytes In/Out, history graph, Peak speed.
There are three methods to install g15stats on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install g15stats Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install g15stats using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install g15stats
Install g15stats Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install g15stats using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install g15stats
Install g15stats 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 g15stats using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install g15stats
How To Uninstall g15stats on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the g15stats package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove g15stats
Uninstall g15stats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall g15stats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove g15stats
Remove g15stats Configurations and Data
To remove g15stats configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge g15stats
Remove g15stats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove g15stats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge g15stats
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install g15stats package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
