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How to install Sqtop on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Sqtop on Ubuntu 18.04

Sqtop is a free and open source monitoring tool. It’s used to displays information about currently active client connections for a Squid proxy in a convenient way. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Sqtop on linuxmint-18.03.

Download the Sqtop debian package by using wget command.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/paleg/sqtop/releases/download/v2015-02-08/sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64.deb
--2018-09-20 16:09:39--  https://github.com/paleg/sqtop/releases/download/v2015-02-08/sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
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Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.216.85.51
Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.85.51|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 82536 (81K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64.deb’

sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64 100%[============================>]  80.60K  95.4KB/s    in 0.8s    

2018-09-20 16:09:43 (95.4 KB/s) - ‘sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64.deb’ saved [82536/82536]

Install the sqtop by using gdebi.

root@linuxhelp:~# gdebi sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

show info about currently active connections for a Squid
 sqtop is a console applicaton to display information about currently active client connections for a Squid proxy in a convenient way.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Selecting previously unselected package sqtop.
(Reading database ... 139971 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking sqtop (2015-02-08) ...
Setting up sqtop (2015-02-08) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...

Type sqtop from terminal.

root@linuxhelp:~# sqtop

With this, the method to install sqtop on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

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What is Sqtop on Ubuntu?
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Sqtop is a free and open source monitoring tool. It’s used to displays information about currently active client connections for a Squid proxy in a convenient way.
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How to install Sqtop on Ubuntu?
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Run the following command:
# gdebi sqtop_2015-02-08_amd64.deb