How To Install tiptop on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiptop on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 tiptop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tiptop
How To Uninstall tiptop on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tiptop
Remove tiptop Configurations and Data
To remove tiptop configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiptop package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
