Bar Assistant is a command line tool that displays system metrics in your terminal. It can show various information such as CPU usage, memory usage, and network activity. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Bar Assistant on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation process, please ensure that you have the following:
Before installing any packages, it is advisable to update the package repository to ensure that the latest version of packages is downloaded. Open your terminal application and enter the following command:
sudo apk update
Git is a version control tool that is required to clone the Bar Assistant source code from GitHub. In your terminal, run the following command to install Git:
sudo apk add git
After installing Git, we will now clone the Bar Assistant repository from GitHub. In your terminal, execute the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/karlomikus/bar-assistant.git
This will download the Bar Assistant repository to your current working directory.
Bar Assistant is written in Python, so we need to install Python and its dependencies. In your terminal, enter the following command to install Python:
sudo apk add python3
Next, we will install the required Python packages using pip. Enter the following command:
sudo python3 -m ensurepip
sudo python3 -m pip install -r bar-assistant/requirements.txt
This will install all the necessary packages required to run Bar Assistant.
After installing all the dependencies, we are now ready to run Bar Assistant. In your terminal, navigate to the Bar Assistant directory by executing the following command:
cd bar-assistant/
To start Bar Assistant, run the following command:
python3 bar_assistant.py
This will start the Bar Assistant tool, and you can see various system statistics displayed in your terminal.
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed Bar Assistant on Alpine Linux Latest. Now you can use this tool to get real-time system statistics on your terminal.
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