How To Install process-viewer on Debian 12

Learn how to install process-viewer on Debian 12 with this tutorial. process-viewer is Process viewer GTK GUI written in rust

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install process-viewer on Debian 12.

What is process-viewer

process-viewer is:

Process viewer provides current status of your processes (cpu and memory usage) and your system (usage of every core and of your RAM, and the temperature of your components if this information is available).

There are three methods to install process-viewer on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install process-viewer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install process-viewer

Install process-viewer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install process-viewer

Install process-viewer 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 process-viewer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install process-viewer

How To Uninstall process-viewer on Debian 12

To uninstall only the process-viewer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove process-viewer

Uninstall process-viewer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall process-viewer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove process-viewer

Remove process-viewer Configurations and Data

To remove process-viewer configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge process-viewer

Remove process-viewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge process-viewer

Dependencies

process-viewer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install process-viewer package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.