queeg Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I want to be able to monitor my network bandwidth sometimes. But I'm a linux newbie and can't figure out how to install it. installpkg didn't like the file. I saw this post. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1205.0 It's here also. http://www.gropp.org/?id=projects⊂=bwm-ng Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 The package you downloaded is probably the source code, not the compiled program Download from this link http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz install with installpkg bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted February 27, 2010 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 Thanks Joe. Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 Well, I think it's installed. But I guess I'm just too much of a linux dummy to figure out how to run it. I expected bmw-ng would bring up the help for it but nothing is found. Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 What do you get when you type bwm-ng I get this: [color=maroon] bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help input: /proc/net/dev type: rate - iface Rx Tx Total ============================================================================== lo: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s eth0: 0.11 KB/s 0.34 KB/s 0.46 KB/s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ total: 0.11 KB/s 0.34 KB/s 0.46 KB/s[/color] you can find a manual page here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/bwm-ng Are you trying to monitor disk performance? or network performance? (default is network performance) For disk performance I use something like this with a list of the disk devices I want to monitor: bwm-ng -T avg -i disk -I sdf,hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf,hdg,hdl,hdk,hda,sde I then get: [color=maroon] bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help input: disk IO type: avg (30s) \ iface Rx Tx Total ============================================================================== sde: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s sdf: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hde: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdf: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdg: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdk: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdl: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hda: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdb: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdc: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdd: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ total: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s [/color] Have fun... Joe L. Quote Link to comment
JarDo Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Attached is a .conf file for the unmenu package manager: bwm-ng-unmenu-package.conf Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 What do you get when you type bwm-ng The command isn't found. Maybe it didn't install correctly. Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 Attached is a .conf file for the unmenu package manager: Remember I'm a total newbie! What does this .conf file do and do I need to install it? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 What do you get when you type bwm-ng The command isn't found. Maybe it didn't install correctly. What does it say when you run the installpkg command to install it? Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted March 3, 2010 Author Share Posted March 3, 2010 Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install? It does not end with .gz. Look at the link I gave earlier. It was: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz and it ends in .tgz You should have ended up with a file named: bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted March 3, 2010 Author Share Posted March 3, 2010 Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install? It does not end with .gz. Look at the link I gave earlier. It was: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz and it ends in .tgz You should have ended up with a file named: bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz When I download the file it's ending with .gz Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install? It does not end with .gz. Look at the link I gave earlier. It was: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz and it ends in .tgz You should have ended up with a file named: bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz Then your program you are using is attempting to uncompress it itself. You should be able to right-click, save-as and download without un-compressing the file or changing the extension. When I download the file it's ending with .gz Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted March 3, 2010 Author Share Posted March 3, 2010 Even when I right-click and choose save as it comes out .gz Maybe it's getting unzipped by Win7 automatically or something but I end up with .gz Well at least now I know to watch out for that. Quote Link to comment
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