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

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "sysstat" package

This is a short guide on how to install sysstat on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall sysstat on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: sysstat
Architecture: amd64
Version: 11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 980
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), ucf (>= 2.003), xz-utils, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libsensors4 (>= 1:3.0.0)
Recommends: cron | cron-daemon
Suggests: isag
Filename: pool/main/s/sysstat/sysstat_11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3_amd64.deb
Size: 242290
MD5sum: 9e9cf6a16956ff95a5e1d4a231143990
SHA1: 5d922e046dc0d909ed4050d03557a9482584f941
SHA256: 25604e0eac076389f88fac3fd145319d94d506f63e85d16f8c6603a9b851ce0e
SHA512: 8b5a8a62ef18e2b5fb1c3d1e48e60510bd3b5f80c9c4bd7a6e39ed686c13578f4a98ec6a7e58e94708d7fc0dce90cbfb6ce357a0efeae89c63a1cc825d67a641
Homepage: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/
Description-en: system performance tools for Linux
The sysstat package contains the following system performance tools:
- sar: collects and reports system activity information;
- iostat: reports CPU utilization and disk I/O statistics;
- tapestat: reports statistics for tapes connected to the system;
- mpstat: reports global and per-processor statistics;
- pidstat: reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes);
- sadf: displays data collected by sar in various formats;
- cifsiostat: reports I/O statistics for CIFS filesystems.
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The statistics reported by sar deal with I/O transfer rates,
paging activity, process-related activities, interrupts,
network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU
utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among
others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
Description-md5: 9ada7023f201e412303d7867f5bcf2be
Task: postgresql-server
Supported: 5y

Package: sysstat
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 968
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Architecture: amd64
Version: 11.2.0-1
Depends: bzip2, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), ucf (>= 2.003), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libsensors4 (>= 1:3.0.0)
Recommends: cron | cron-daemon
Suggests: isag
Filename: pool/main/s/sysstat/sysstat_11.2.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 238558
MD5sum: 4eaa69e6c863080fe38406b63a213e0c
SHA1: e4881716ac3750683344de216db2fed7e48199cd
SHA256: 8822d6842e54a0d19486a4f51cd34f5d85761403da1931f45d6d242ccd5cd866
Description-en: system performance tools for Linux
The sysstat package contains the following system performance tools:
- sar: collects and reports system activity information;
- iostat: reports CPU utilization and disk I/O statistics;
- tapestat: reports statistics for tapes connected to the system;
- mpstat: reports global and per-processor statistics;
- pidstat: reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes);
- sadf: displays data collected by sar in various formats;
- cifsiostat: reports I/O statistics for CIFS filesystems.
.
The statistics reported by sar deal with I/O transfer rates,
paging activity, process-related activities, interrupts,
network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU
utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among
others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
Description-md5: 9ada7023f201e412303d7867f5bcf2be
Homepage: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: postgresql-server