How To Install nmon on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmon on Debian 10.
What is nmon
nmon is:
nmon is a systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool. It can display the CPU, memory, network, disks (mini graphs or numbers), file systems, NFS, top processes, resources (Linux version & processors) and on Power micro-partition information.
Data is displayed on the screen and updated once every two seconds, using a dumb screen. However, you can easily change this interval to a longer or shorter time period.
The nmon tool can also capture the same data to a text file for later analysis and graphing for reports. The output is in a spreadsheet format (.csv).
There are three methods to install nmon on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nmon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nmon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nmon
Install nmon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nmon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nmon
Install nmon 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 nmon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nmon
How To Uninstall nmon on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nmon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nmon
Uninstall nmon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nmon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nmon
Remove nmon Configurations and Data
To remove nmon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nmon
Remove nmon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nmon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nmon
Dependencies
nmon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.