How To Install iotop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iotop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is iotop
iotop is:
iotop does for I/O usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system. It is handy for answering the question “Why is the disk churning so much?”.
iotop can only run under a Linux 2.6.20 or later kernel built with the CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS build config options on.
There are three methods to install iotop
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 iotop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iotop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iotop
Install iotop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iotop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iotop
Install iotop 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 iotop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iotop
How To Uninstall iotop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the iotop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iotop
Uninstall iotop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iotop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iotop
Remove iotop Configurations and Data
To remove iotop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iotop
Remove iotop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iotop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iotop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iotop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.