How To Install glances on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glances
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glances
Remove glances Configurations and Data
To remove glances
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glances
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.