How To Install nfswatch on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfswatch
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nfswatch
nfswatch is:
Nfswatch is a command-line tool for monitoring NFS traffic. It can capture and analyze the NFS packets on a particular network interface or on all interfaces.
It mostly monitors NFS client traffic (NFS requests). it also monitors the NFS reply traffic from a server in order to measure the response time for each RPC.
There are three methods to install nfswatch
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 nfswatch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nfswatch
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nfswatch
Install nfswatch Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nfswatch
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nfswatch
Install nfswatch 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 nfswatch
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nfswatch
How To Uninstall nfswatch on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nfswatch
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nfswatch
Uninstall nfswatch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nfswatch
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nfswatch
Remove nfswatch Configurations and Data
To remove nfswatch
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nfswatch
Remove nfswatch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nfswatch
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nfswatch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfswatch
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.