rtop is a nifty tool that allows you to monitor system resources. It comes with a neat, intuitive interface that displays statistics about CPU usage, memory usage, and network activity. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install rtop on the latest version of Debian.
Before you start, make sure you have the following:
Before we begin, we must install the necessary dependencies to build and run rtop. These include build-essential, pkg-config, and libncurses-dev.
Enter the following command to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libncurses-dev -y
Next, we must clone the rtop repository from Github.
Navigate to the directory in which you want to download the rtop source files (in this tutorial, we'll use /opt), and then use git to clone the repository.
cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop.git
Now that we have the source files, we need to build rtop. In the terminal, navigate to the rtop folder and run the following command:
cd rtop
sudo make
This command will build rtop.
Once the build is complete, we can install rtop. To install rtop, run the following command:
sudo make install
Now that we have rtop installed on our system, we can start using it to monitor system resources.
To run rtop, simply type the following command:
rtop
This will open rtop's neat, intuitive interface where you can monitor system resources in real-time.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install rtop on Debian Latest. rtop is a powerful tool that provides an intuitive interface to monitor system resources. By following this tutorial, you should now be able to use rtop to monitor your system's CPU usage, memory usage, and network activity.
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