How To Install procmeter3 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install procmeter3 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is procmeter3
procmeter3 is:
ProcMeter displays constantly updating graphs of system information. Many different graphs are supported, including:
APM and ACPI information. Mailbox monitoring. Date, time, uptime. Amount of free and used disk space. Size, number of lines, rate of growth of log files. Amount of used and free memory and swap. Traffic on network devices. Load average, number of processes running and starting. Low level system statistics like CPU usage, disk usage and swapping. CPU clock speed. Wireless network link quality.
As if all that wasn’t enough, procmeter is designed to be easily extendable via plugins.
Procmeter can use either the Athena or the GTK+ widgets. It also supports display on small LCD screens using the Linux lcdproc driver.
There are three methods to install procmeter3 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 procmeter3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install procmeter3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install procmeter3
Install procmeter3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install procmeter3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install procmeter3
Install procmeter3 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 procmeter3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install procmeter3
How To Uninstall procmeter3 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the procmeter3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove procmeter3
Uninstall procmeter3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall procmeter3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove procmeter3
Remove procmeter3 Configurations and Data
To remove procmeter3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge procmeter3
Remove procmeter3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove procmeter3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge procmeter3
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install procmeter3 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
