How To Install pipemeter on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipemeter
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pipemeter
pipemeter is:
pipemeter can be inserted in a shell command between two programs passing data via pipe, or between a file and a program reading from stdin, and show the speed and amount of data that has passed through. If reading from a regular file, or passed a size, a progress meter is also shown.
Command line switches allow tuning of block size and display interval. Size parameters have support for dd style block size specification.
Pipemeter is intended to be very lightweight, with no dependencies.
There are three methods to install pipemeter
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 pipemeter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pipemeter
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pipemeter
Install pipemeter Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pipemeter
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pipemeter
Install pipemeter 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 pipemeter
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pipemeter
How To Uninstall pipemeter on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pipemeter
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pipemeter
Uninstall pipemeter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pipemeter
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipemeter
Remove pipemeter Configurations and Data
To remove pipemeter
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pipemeter
Remove pipemeter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pipemeter
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pipemeter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipemeter
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.