How To Install logtop on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install logtop on Kali Linux. logtop is real time log line rate analyzer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install logtop on Kali Linux.

What is logtop

logtop is:

logtop is a System Administrator tool to analyze line rate taking log file as input. It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result using curses, displaying in columns: Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.

$ tail -f FILE | logtop is the friendly version of: $ watch ’tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'

There are three methods to install logtop on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install logtop Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install logtop using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install logtop

Install logtop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install logtop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install logtop

Install logtop Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install logtop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install logtop

How To Uninstall logtop on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the logtop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove logtop

Uninstall logtop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall logtop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove logtop

Remove logtop Configurations and Data

To remove logtop configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge logtop

Remove logtop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove logtop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge logtop

Dependencies

logtop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install logtop package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.