How To Install tiptop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiptop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiptop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.