How To Install kmon on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmon
on Debian 12.
What is kmon
kmon is:
kmon is an interactive kernel monitor for the terminal. It can insepct and load kernel modules, and it can monitor kernel activity. It basically combines dmesg and kmod into one application. Note that is probably needs to run as root.
There are three methods to install kmon
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install kmon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kmon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kmon
Install kmon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kmon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kmon
Install kmon 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install kmon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kmon
How To Uninstall kmon on Debian 12
To uninstall only the kmon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kmon
Uninstall kmon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kmon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kmon
Remove kmon Configurations and Data
To remove kmon
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kmon
Remove kmon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kmon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kmon
Dependencies
kmon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmon
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.