How To Install nicstat on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nicstat on Debian 9.
What is nicstat
nicstat is:
nicstat is to network interfaces as iostat is to disks, or prstat is to processes. It is designed as a much better version of “netstat -i”. Its differences include:
- Reports bytes in & out as well as packets.
- Normalizes these values to per-second rates.
- Reports on all interfaces (while iterating)
- Reports Utilization (rough calculation as of now)
- Reports Saturation (also rough)
- Prefixes statistics with the current time
There are three methods to install nicstat on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nicstat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nicstat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nicstat
Install nicstat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nicstat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nicstat
Install nicstat 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 nicstat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nicstat
How To Uninstall nicstat on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nicstat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nicstat
Uninstall nicstat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nicstat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nicstat
Remove nicstat Configurations and Data
To remove nicstat configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nicstat
Remove nicstat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nicstat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nicstat
Dependencies
nicstat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nicstat package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.