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How to Install Gnome System Monitor on Raspberry Pi

Looking for a GUI-based monitoring tool for the Raspberry Pi system. Install Gnome System Monitor. It’s an open-source advanced system monitoring tool designed to help users monitor their systems for potential problems. You can use this tool to monitor CPU utilization, processes, disk usage, network history and more.

Follow this article’s guidelines to install the Gnome System Monitor tool on Raspberry Pi.

How to Install Gnome System Monitor on Raspberry Pi

You can install Gnome System Monitor on Raspberry Pi from the following steps:

Step 1: Update the packages list on Raspberry Pi from the following command:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Step 2: Then install Gnome System Monitor from the following command:

$ sudo apt install gnome-system-monitor -y

Step 3: Confirm Gnome System Monitor Installation

Ensure Gnome System Monitor tool is installed on Raspberry Pi and for that, you have to run the below-given command:

$ gnome-system-monitor --version

Run Gnome System Monitor on Raspberry Pi

You can run Gnome System Monitor on Raspberry Pi through terminal via “gnome-system-monitor” command:

$ gnome-system-monitor

At the Gnome System Monitor dashboard, you will see the three different tabs, including Processes, Resources and File Systems.

You can navigate to the “CPU Resources” tab to view the CPU, memory swap and network history.

You can navigate to the “File Systems” tab to view the disk information on Raspberry Pi.

You can also run Gnome System Monitor from GUI in the “System Tools” option.

Remove Gnome System Monitor from Raspberry Pi

To quickly remove Gnome System Monitor from Raspberry Pi, follow the below-given command:

$ sudo apt remove gnome-system-monitor -y

Conclusion

Gnome System Monitor is a lightweight GUI-based monitoring tool that can be installed on Raspberry Pi directly from the “apt” install command. The users can then open this monitoring utility from the terminal using the “gnome-system-monitor” command or through GUI from the “System Tools” section. They can also remove this utility anytime from the system through the “apt remove” command.

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Awais Khan

I'm an Engineer and an academic researcher by profession. My interest for Raspberry Pi, embedded systems and blogging has brought me here to share my knowledge with others.