How To Install wmtop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmtop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 20.04. 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmtop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.