How To Install wmtop on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmtop on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 wmtop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wmtop
How To Uninstall wmtop on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmtop
Remove wmtop Configurations and Data
To remove wmtop configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmtop package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
