How To Install latencytop on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install latencytop on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is latencytop
latencytop is:
LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the worst latency hiccups.
There are three methods to install latencytop on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install latencytop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install latencytop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install latencytop
Install latencytop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install latencytop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install latencytop
Install latencytop 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 latencytop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install latencytop
How To Uninstall latencytop on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the latencytop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove latencytop
Uninstall latencytop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall latencytop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove latencytop
Remove latencytop Configurations and Data
To remove latencytop configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge latencytop
Remove latencytop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove latencytop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latencytop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install latencytop package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
