How To Install nfswatch on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfswatch on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nfswatch
nfswatch is:
Nfswatch is a command-line tool for monitoring NFS traffic. It can capture and analyze the NFS packets on a particular network interface or on all interfaces.
It mostly monitors NFS client traffic (NFS requests). it also monitors the NFS reply traffic from a server in order to measure the response time for each RPC.
There are three methods to install nfswatch 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 nfswatch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nfswatch using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nfswatch
Install nfswatch Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nfswatch using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nfswatch
Install nfswatch 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 nfswatch using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nfswatch
How To Uninstall nfswatch on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nfswatch package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nfswatch
Uninstall nfswatch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nfswatch and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nfswatch
Remove nfswatch Configurations and Data
To remove nfswatch configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nfswatch
Remove nfswatch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nfswatch configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nfswatch
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfswatch package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
