How To Install plasma-systemmonitor 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 plasma-systemmonitor on Ubuntu.

What is `plasma-systemmonitor`

plasma-systemmonitor is:

Plasma System Monitor provides an interface for monitoring system sensors, process information and other system resources.

There are three methods to install plasma-systemmonitor 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 plasma-systemmonitor Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install plasma-systemmonitor using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-systemmonitor

Install plasma-systemmonitor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plasma-systemmonitor using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plasma-systemmonitor

Install plasma-systemmonitor 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 plasma-systemmonitor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-systemmonitor

How To Uninstall plasma-systemmonitor on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the plasma-systemmonitor package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plasma-systemmonitor

Uninstall plasma-systemmonitor And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plasma-systemmonitor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-systemmonitor

Remove plasma-systemmonitor Configurations and Data

To remove plasma-systemmonitor configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-systemmonitor

Remove plasma-systemmonitor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plasma-systemmonitor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-systemmonitor

Dependencies

plasma-systemmonitor have the following dependencies:

References

plasma-systemmonitor website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-systemmonitor package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.