How To Install logtop 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 logtop on Ubuntu.
What is logtop
logtop is:
logtop is a System Administrator tool to analyze line rate taking log file as input. It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result using curses, displaying in columns: Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.
$ tail -f FILE | logtop is the friendly version of: $ watch ’tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'
There are three methods to install logtop 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 logtop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install logtop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install logtop
Install logtop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install logtop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install logtop
Install logtop 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 logtop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install logtop
How To Uninstall logtop on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the logtop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove logtop
Uninstall logtop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall logtop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove logtop
Remove logtop Configurations and Data
To remove logtop configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge logtop
Remove logtop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove logtop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge logtop
Dependencies
logtop have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logtop package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.