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

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "logtop" package

Learn how to install logtop on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Learn how to uninstall logtop on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: logtop
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 46
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Julien Palard
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4.3-1build1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libncurses5 (>= 6), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Filename: pool/universe/l/logtop/logtop_0.4.3-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 15576
MD5sum: ff8d61024eb89c1d106bd451f8e2d65c
SHA1: a172a62728e0f995738fc8240535f59a01b29029
SHA256: 0a2d64af146f95e5d49dc8385cfb745ec08ee6ec30f514ad0a92157e50dc7015
Description-en: real time log line rate analyzer
logtop is a System Administrator tool to analyze line rate taking log
file as input. It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result
using curses, displaying in columns:
Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.
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$ tail -f FILE | logtop
is the friendly version of:
$ watch 'tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'
Description-md5: 2379dcce3976070637baa3a01ab7c323
Homepage: http://github.com/JulienPalard/logtop
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu