How To Install radeontop 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 radeontop on Ubuntu.
What is radeontop
radeontop is:
radeontop is a small utility which allows one to monitor the utilization of Radeon GPUs starting from the R600 series and newer using undocumented performance counters in the hardware. The utility works with the free drivers.
It displays the utilization of the graphics pipe, event engine, vertex cache, vertex group and tesselator, texture addresser and cache, the shader units and more, both with a relative percent value as well as a colorful bar diagram.
There are three methods to install radeontop 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 radeontop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radeontop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radeontop
Install radeontop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radeontop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radeontop
Install radeontop 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 radeontop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radeontop
How To Uninstall radeontop on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the radeontop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radeontop
Uninstall radeontop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radeontop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radeontop
Remove radeontop Configurations and Data
To remove radeontop configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radeontop
Remove radeontop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radeontop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radeontop
Dependencies
radeontop have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radeontop package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.