How To Install prettyping on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prettyping on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is prettyping
prettyping is:
prettyping is a simple tool written in Shell to show latency between the sending and the destination hosts.
It is a wrapper around the standard ping tool with the objective of making the output prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
prettyping runs the standard ping in the background and parses its output, showing the ping responses in a graphical way at the terminal (by using colors and Unicode characters).
There are three methods to install prettyping 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 prettyping Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prettyping using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prettyping
Install prettyping Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prettyping using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prettyping
Install prettyping 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 prettyping using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prettyping
How To Uninstall prettyping on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the prettyping package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prettyping
Uninstall prettyping And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prettyping and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prettyping
Remove prettyping Configurations and Data
To remove prettyping configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prettyping
Remove prettyping configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prettyping configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prettyping
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prettyping package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
