How To Install gkrelltop on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gkrelltop

gkrelltop is:

Plugin for gkrellm that displays the top three cpu or memory intensive processes in a small window inside gkrellm, similar to wmtop. Useful to check out anytime what processes are consuming most cpu memory, or IO resources on your machine.

There are three methods to install gkrelltop 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 gkrelltop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gkrelltop

Install gkrelltop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gkrelltop

Install gkrelltop 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 gkrelltop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gkrelltop

How To Uninstall gkrelltop on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gkrelltop

Uninstall gkrelltop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gkrelltop

Remove gkrelltop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gkrelltop

Remove gkrelltop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gkrelltop

Dependencies

gkrelltop have the following dependencies:

• gkrellm
• libc6

References

• gkrelltop website

Summary

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