How To Install gnome-system-monitor on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-system-monitor on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-system-monitor
gnome-system-monitor is:
This package allows you to graphically view and manipulate the running processes on your system. It also provides an overview of available resources such as CPU and memory. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gnome-system-monitor Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.0-1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2156 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.56.0), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.54.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.0), libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 (>= 3.24.0), libgtop-2.0-11 (>= 2.37.90), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.35.0), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.2.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libsystemd0 Recommends: gvfs Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-system-monitor/gnome-system-monitor_3.36.0-1_amd64.deb Size: 181436 MD5sum: b80855395a50aba2e8d949d5761884f5 SHA1: c566899132c945a303155c261d1b97bd3060b409 SHA256: debc9596676b17ca9ef2e3a01bbdbdf2e4d66e29201b3f18484f8686ffcd357b Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SystemMonitor Description-en: Process viewer and system resource monitor for GNOME This package allows you to graphically view and manipulate the running processes on your system. It also provides an overview of available resources such as CPU and memory. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-system-monitor 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 gnome-system-monitor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-system-monitor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-system-monitor
Install gnome-system-monitor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-system-monitor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-system-monitor
Install gnome-system-monitor 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 gnome-system-monitor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-system-monitor
How To Uninstall gnome-system-monitor on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-system-monitor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-system-monitor
Uninstall gnome-system-monitor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-system-monitor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-system-monitor
Remove gnome-system-monitor Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-system-monitor configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-system-monitor
Remove gnome-system-monitor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-system-monitor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-system-monitor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-system-monitor package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
