How To Install itop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install itop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is itop
itop is:
itop is a simple interrupt load monitor which opens and monitors /proc/interrupts in a top-like way. It can be set to monitor the file a specific number of times and monitor all interrupts, not only the ones currently in use.
There are three methods to install itop
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 itop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install itop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install itop
Install itop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install itop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install itop
Install itop 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 itop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install itop
How To Uninstall itop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the itop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove itop
Uninstall itop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall itop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove itop
Remove itop Configurations and Data
To remove itop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge itop
Remove itop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove itop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge itop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install itop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.