How To Install topline on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is topline

topline is:

This is a top-of-the-line logger of CPU usage patterns, designed for machines with ca. 50-300 total hardware threads (fewer works but results in a narrow graph, more requires a very wide terminal). Every per-tick sample is shown abusing Unicode characters to fit within a single line.

Disk usage is also shown in a similarly terse per-device way, as % utilization for reads and writes.

There are three methods to install topline 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 topline Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install topline

Install topline Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install topline

Install topline 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 topline using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install topline

How To Uninstall topline on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove topline

Uninstall topline And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove topline

Remove topline Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge topline

Remove topline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topline

Dependencies

topline have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• topline website

Summary

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