How To Install irqtop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irqtop on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is irqtop
irqtop is:
irqtop is a small ruby-written and curses-based utility which shows interrupt requests and software interrupts like top does for processes, but enhanced with colors.
Package: irqtop Architecture: all Version: 2.4-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Source: iptables-netflow Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Axel Beckert [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 31 Depends: ruby, ruby-curses Recommends: ethtool Filename: pool/universe/i/iptables-netflow/irqtop_2.4-2_all.deb Size: 8704 MD5sum: 9926f69024e8b98756340f11a383cfa0 SHA1: 67f49a17419b53a9c2b5975a6446234ceb9a7ce0 SHA256: 68a1650fac29103473903d337c430cd0bed1a6a2a85bf0dbc9092e87e2b3c8a1 Homepage: https://github.com/aabc/ipt-netflow Description-en: Observe IRQ and SoftIRQ in a top-like fashion irqtop is a small ruby-written and curses-based utility which shows interrupt requests and software interrupts like top does for processes, but enhanced with colors.
There are three methods to install irqtop 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 irqtop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install irqtop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install irqtop
Install irqtop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install irqtop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install irqtop
Install irqtop 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 irqtop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install irqtop
How To Uninstall irqtop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the irqtop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove irqtop
Uninstall irqtop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall irqtop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove irqtop
Remove irqtop Configurations and Data
To remove irqtop configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge irqtop
Remove irqtop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove irqtop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irqtop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irqtop package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.