How To Install tiptop on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tiptop on Kali Linux. tiptop is performance monitoring tool for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tiptop on Kali Linux.

What is tiptop

tiptop is:

Tiptop is a performance monitoring tool for Linux. It provides a dynamic real-time view of the tasks running in the system. Tiptop is very similar to the top utility, but most of the information displayed comes from hardware counters.

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

Install tiptop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tiptop

Install tiptop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tiptop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tiptop

Install tiptop Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tiptop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tiptop

How To Uninstall tiptop on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tiptop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tiptop

Uninstall tiptop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tiptop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tiptop

Remove tiptop Configurations and Data

To remove tiptop configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tiptop

Remove tiptop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tiptop

Dependencies

tiptop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tiptop package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.