Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install atop on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is atop
atop is:
Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command,
but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes, and only shows
the deviations since the previous interval. At regular intervals, it shows
system-level activity related to the CPU, memory, swap, disks and network
layers, and it shows for every active process the CPU utilization in system
and user mode, the virtual and resident memory growth, priority, username,
state, and exit code. The process level activity is also shown for processes
which finished during the last interval, to get a complete overview about the
consumers of things such as CPU time.
Author: Gerlof Langeveld [email protected]
There are three methods to install atop on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install atop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install atop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install atop
Install atop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install atop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install atop
Install atop 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 atop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install atop
How To Uninstall atop on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the atop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove atop
Uninstall atop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall atop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove atop
Remove atop Configurations and Data
To remove atop configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge atop
Remove atop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove atop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge atop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install atop package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
