How To Install btop on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install btop on Ubuntu.
What is btop
btop is:
btop is a modern and colorful command line resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. btop features:
- Easy to use, with a game inspired menu system.
- Full mouse support, all buttons with a highlighted key is clickable and mouse scroll works in process list and menu boxes.
- Fast and responsive UI with UP, DOWN keys process selection.
- Function for showing detailed stats for selected process.
- Ability to filter processes.
- Easy switching between sorting options.
- Tree view of processes.
- Send any signal to selected process.
- UI menu for changing all config file options.
- Auto scaling graph for network usage.
- Shows IO activity and speeds for disks
- Battery meter
- Selectable symbols for the graphs
- Custom presets
- And more… btop is written in C++ and is continuation of bashtop and bpytop.
There are three methods to install btop on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install btop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install btop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install btop
Install btop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install btop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install btop
Install btop 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 btop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install btop
How To Uninstall btop on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the btop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove btop
Uninstall btop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall btop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove btop
Remove btop Configurations and Data
To remove btop configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge btop
Remove btop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove btop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge btop
Dependencies
btop have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install btop package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.