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authornicolargo <nicolargo@nicolargo-boulot.(none)>2012-02-14 11:58:04 +0100
committernicolargo <nicolargo@nicolargo-boulot.(none)>2012-02-14 11:58:04 +0100
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@@ -6,29 +6,41 @@ Glances -- Eye on your system
## Description
-Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux or BSD OS.
+Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux and BSD OS.
-Glances uses the libstatgrab library to get information from your system.
-It is developed in Python and uses the python-statgrab lib.
+Glances uses the PsUtil library to get information from your system.
+It is developed in Python.
![screenshot](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/raw/master/screenshot.png)
## Installation
-### From package manager
+### From package manager (very easy way)
-Packages exist for Arch, Fedora, Redhat ...
+Packages exist for Arch, Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu (with PPA), FreeBSD...
+
+### From PyPi (easy way)
+
+PyPi is an official Python package manager.
+
+You first need to install pypi on your system. For exemple on Debian/Ubuntu:
+
+ $ sudo apt-get install python-pip
+
+Then install the latest Glances version:
+
+ $ sudo pip install glances
### From source
Get the latest version:
- $ wget https://github.com/downloads/nicolargo/glances/glances-1.3.7.tar.gz
+ $ wget https://github.com/downloads/nicolargo/glances/glances-1.4.tar.gz
Glances use a standard GNU style installer:
- $ tar zxvf glances-1.3.7.tar.gz
- $ cd glances-1.3.7
+ $ tar zxvf glances-1.4.tar.gz
+ $ cd glances-1.4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
@@ -36,22 +48,14 @@ Glances use a standard GNU style installer:
Pre-requisites:
* Python 2.6+ (not tested with Python 3+)
-* python-statgrab 0.5+ (did NOT work with python-statgrab 0.4)
-
-Notes: For Debian.
-The Debian Squeeze repos only include the python-statgrab 0.4.
-You had to install the version 0.5 using the following commands:
-
- $ sudo apt-get install libstatgrab-dev pkg-config python-dev make
- $ wget http://ftp.uk.i-scream.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/pystatgrab/pystatgrab-0.5.tar.gz
- $ tar zxvf pystatgrab-0.5.tar.gz
- $ cd pystatgrab-0.5/
- $ ./setup.py build
- $ sudo ./setup.py install
-
-Notes: For Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.
-The instruction to install the version 0.5 are here:
-https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues/5#issuecomment-3033194
+* psutil 0.4.1+ (did NOT work with psutil < 0.2 )
+
+Notes: For Debian and Ubuntu < 12.04
+The officials repos only include the psutil version 0.2.1.
+You had to install the version 0.4.1 using the following commands:
+
+ $ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip
+ $ sudo pip install psutil
## Running