How To Install qtop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qtop
qtop is:
qtop provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It has only a small fraction of the options provided by its console counterparts, but hopefully the most used ones.
There are three methods to install qtop
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 qtop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qtop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qtop
Install qtop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qtop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qtop
Install qtop 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 qtop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qtop
How To Uninstall qtop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qtop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qtop
Uninstall qtop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qtop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qtop
Remove qtop Configurations and Data
To remove qtop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qtop
Remove qtop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qtop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qtop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.