How To Install glances on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glances on Debian 10.
What is glances
glances is:
Glances is a curses-based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux or BSD OS. Glances uses the PsUtil library to get information from your system.
It monitors CPU, load, memory, network bandwidth, disk I/O, disk use, process.
There are three methods to install glances on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install glances Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glances using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glances
Install glances Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glances using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glances
Install glances 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 glances using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glances
How To Uninstall glances on Debian 10
To uninstall only the glances package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glances
Uninstall glances And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glances and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glances
Remove glances Configurations and Data
To remove glances configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glances
Remove glances configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glances configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glances
Dependencies
glances have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glances package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.