How To Install sysstat on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sysstat on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sysstat
sysstat is:
The sysstat package contains the following system performance tools:
- sar: collects and reports system activity information;
- iostat: reports CPU utilization and disk I/O statistics;
- tapestat: reports statistics for tapes connected to the system;
- mpstat: reports global and per-processor statistics;
- pidstat: reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes);
- sadf: displays data collected by sar in various formats;
- cifsiostat: reports I/O statistics for CIFS filesystems.
The statistics reported by sar deal with I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activities, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
There are three methods to install sysstat 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 sysstat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sysstat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sysstat
Install sysstat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sysstat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sysstat
Install sysstat 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 sysstat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sysstat
How To Uninstall sysstat on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sysstat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sysstat
Uninstall sysstat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sysstat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sysstat
Remove sysstat Configurations and Data
To remove sysstat configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sysstat
Remove sysstat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sysstat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sysstat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sysstat package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
