How To Install speedometer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speedometer on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is speedometer
speedometer is:
Monitor network traffic or speed/progress of a file transfer. The program can be used for cases like:
- how long it will take for 38 MiB transfer to finish
- how quickly is another transfer going
- how fast is the upstream on this ADSL line
- how fast is data written to a filesystem.
There are three methods to install speedometer on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install speedometer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install speedometer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speedometer
Install speedometer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speedometer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speedometer
Install speedometer 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 speedometer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speedometer
How To Uninstall speedometer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the speedometer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speedometer
Uninstall speedometer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speedometer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speedometer
Remove speedometer Configurations and Data
To remove speedometer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speedometer
Remove speedometer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speedometer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speedometer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speedometer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
