How To Install iftop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is iftop
iftop is:
iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question “Why is my Internet link so slow?”.
There are three methods to install iftop
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install iftop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iftop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iftop
Install iftop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iftop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iftop
Install iftop 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 iftop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iftop
How To Uninstall iftop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the iftop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iftop
Uninstall iftop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iftop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iftop
Remove iftop Configurations and Data
To remove iftop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iftop
Remove iftop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iftop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iftop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.