How to Install and Uninstall btop Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "btop" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install btop on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                btop
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "btop" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall btop on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                btop
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the btop package on Kali Linux

Package: btop
Version: 1.3.0-1
Installed-Size: 1588
Maintainer: Marius Gripsgard
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1)
Size: 530280
SHA256: b054790446f2e671d8887893a257115bf81b96209f040592a8a0284bc950f84c
SHA1: 58221676839413ec88b42bf6b4faf97554571553
MD5sum: 5b3adb5e9e8ac8baad77f609b7c2987a
Description: Modern and colorful command line resource monitor that shows usage and stats
btop is a modern and colorful command line resource monitor that shows
usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
btop features:
- Easy to use, with a game inspired menu system.
- Full mouse support, all buttons with a highlighted key is clickable
and mouse scroll works in process list and menu boxes.
- Fast and responsive UI with UP, DOWN keys process selection.
- Function for showing detailed stats for selected process.
- Ability to filter processes.
- Easy switching between sorting options.
- Tree view of processes.
- Send any signal to selected process.
- UI menu for changing all config file options.
- Auto scaling graph for network usage.
- Shows IO activity and speeds for disks
- Battery meter
- Selectable symbols for the graphs
- Custom presets
- And more...
btop is written in C++ and is continuation of bashtop and bpytop.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/btop/btop_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb