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