How To Install progress on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install progress
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is progress
progress is:
This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty, Linux-and-OSX-Only C command that looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput, and provide a “top-like” mode (monitoring).
It simply scans /proc
for interesting commands, and then looks at
directories fd
and fdinfo
to find opened files and seek positions,
and reports status for the largest file.
It’s very light, and compatible with virtually any command. This program was formerly known as ‘cv’ on github.
There are three methods to install progress
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 progress Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install progress
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install progress
Install progress Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install progress
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install progress
Install progress 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 progress
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install progress
How To Uninstall progress on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the progress
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove progress
Uninstall progress And Its Dependencies
To uninstall progress
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove progress
Remove progress Configurations and Data
To remove progress
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge progress
Remove progress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove progress
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge progress
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install progress
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.