How to install rtop on Debian Latest

Introduction

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.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have the following:

• A Debian system (latest version)
• A non-root user with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Dependencies

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

Step 2: Clone the rtop repository

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

Step 3: Build rtop

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.

Step 4: Install rtop

Once the build is complete, we can install rtop. To install rtop, run the following command:

sudo make install

Step 5: Running rtop

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.

Conclusion

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.