How to Install and Uninstall latencytop Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "latencytop" package

Please follow the steps below to install latencytop on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall latencytop on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                latencytop
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the latencytop package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: latencytop
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 71
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.5ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libncursesw5 (>= 6), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Filename: pool/universe/l/latencytop/latencytop_0.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 28274
MD5sum: d1c6ffd281638dd8aa514e8ca4522cce
SHA1: 35f29ff01ef0a798e875fc0f132664537d166c69
SHA256: 0feafcec922e494fe19f2fb3412b3b96b2ea93f7a38e791e20026886fbc6721c
Description-en: A tool for developers to visualize system latencies
LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel
and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency
is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the
latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the
worst latency hiccups.
Description-md5: 7cc54bd3f215cbcc364144cfc6fde243
Homepage: http://www.latencytop.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu