Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbm
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is cbm
cbm is:
The Color Bandwidth Meter (CBM) is a small program to display the traffic
currently flowing through the network devices in a simple curses-based GUI.
The traffic for all interfaces include values as receive, transfer and total
Bytes/s or bits/s (or its multiples as KB/s and Kb/s).
It is useful for Internet or LAN speed tests, measuring the velocity of a
link, to establish a benchmark or to monitor your connections. CBM can be
used with virtual, wired or wireless networks.
There are three methods to install cbm
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cbm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cbm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cbm
Install cbm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cbm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cbm
Install cbm 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 cbm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cbm
How To Uninstall cbm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the cbm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cbm
Uninstall cbm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cbm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cbm
Remove cbm Configurations and Data
To remove cbm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cbm
Remove cbm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cbm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cbm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbm
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.