How To Install Gnome Shell Extension System Monitor on Ubuntu 22.04

The functionalities of the GNOME desktop environment can be expanded by downloading GNOME shell extensions. These are plugins written and submitted by normal users and developers that seek to improve the desktop environment and want to share their extension with other users.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Gnome Shell Extensions on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Desktop.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to install Ubuntu gnome extensions
- How to install Gnome shell add-on integration with Firefox browser
- How to install Gnome shell host connector
- How to enable Gnome extensions
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor is:
System information such as memory usage, cpu usage, network rates and more can be displayed in the notification area in GNOME Shell.
Settings can be accessed via gnome-tweak-tool where monitoring settings can be adjusted.
There are three ways to install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
using apt
by running the following command:
Install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
Remove gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
Remove gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
References
- gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor website
- gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor on packages.ubuntu.com
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.