How To Install usbtop on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbtop
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is usbtop
usbtop is:
Top-like utility that shows an estimated instantaneous bandwidth on USB buses and devices.
There are three methods to install usbtop
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install usbtop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install usbtop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install usbtop
Install usbtop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install usbtop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install usbtop
Install usbtop 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 usbtop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install usbtop
How To Uninstall usbtop on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the usbtop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove usbtop
Uninstall usbtop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall usbtop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove usbtop
Remove usbtop Configurations and Data
To remove usbtop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge usbtop
Remove usbtop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove usbtop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge usbtop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbtop
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.