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usbtop: installation instructions

Packages

Under some Linux distributions, usbtop is directly packaged.

To install under Debian-based distributions:

$ sudo apt install usbtop

To install under Fedora:

$ sudo dnf install usbtop

From sources

Prerequisites:

  • libpcap
  • libboost >= 1.48.0

Under Debian, install these packages :

$ sudo apt install libboost-dev libpcap-dev

Compilation instructions:

Create a _build directory and then use CMake to create the required Makefile's

$ cd /path/to/usbtop
$ mkdir _build && cd _build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

Then, compile usbtop:

$ make

And install it to /usr/local/bin (as root) and load kernel module (as root) :

# make install && modprobe usbmon

There are also more detailed instructions for Ubuntu on this stack overflow questionn : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10671/usb-performance-traffic-monitor/489268#489268 (by https://github.com/ElectricRCAircraftGuy).