How To Install wmtop on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is wmtop

wmtop is:

wmtop is a windowmaker dock app to display the top 3 processes running on a unix box displaying the cpu usage or memory usage in an attractive graphical way using little screen real estate. It’s a kind of mini ’top'.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmtop

Install wmtop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wmtop

Install wmtop 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 wmtop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wmtop

How To Uninstall wmtop on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove wmtop

Uninstall wmtop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmtop

Remove wmtop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wmtop

Remove wmtop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmtop

Dependencies

wmtop have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdockapp3
• libx11-6
• libxext6
• libxpm4

References

• wmtop website

Summary

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