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Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python.

It uses the psutil library to get information from your system.

• python >= 2.6 (tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4)
• psutil >= 2.0.0
• setuptools

Optional dependencies:

• bottle (for Web server mode)
• py3sensors (for hardware monitoring support) [Linux-only]
• hddtemp (for HDD temperature monitoring support) [Linux-only]
• batinfo (for battery monitoring support) [Linux-only]
• pysnmp (for SNMP support)

Just enter the following command line:

curl -L http://bit.ly/glances | /bin/bash

Note: Only supported on some GNU/Linux distributions. If you want to support others distribs, please contribute to glancesautoinstall.

Glances is on PyPI. By using PyPI, you are sure to have the latest stable version.

To install, simply use pip:

pip install Glances

Note: Python headers are required to install psutil. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu you need to install first the python-dev package.

To upgrade Glances to the latest version:

pip install --upgrade Glances

At the moment, packages exist for the following GNU/Linux distributions:

• Arch Linux
• Debian (Testing/Sid)
• Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
• Gentoo
• Slackware
• Ubuntu (13.04+)
• Void Linux

So you should be able to install it using your favorite package manager.

To install the binary package:

# pkg_add -r py27-glances

Using pkgng:

# pkg install py27-glances

To install Glances from ports:

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/py-glances/
# make install clean

OS X users can install Glances using Homebrew or MacPorts.

$ brew install python
$ pip install Glances

$ sudo port install glances

• Install Python for Windows: http://www.python.org/getit/
• Install the psutil library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=psutil#downloads
• Install the colorconsole library: http://code.google.com/p/colorconsole/downloads/list
• Download Glances from here: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

To install Glances version X.Y from source:

$ curl -L https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/vX.Y.tar.gz -o glances-X.Y.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf glances-*.tar.gz
$ cd glances-*
# python setup.py install

Note: Python headers are required to install psutil. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu you need to install first the python-dev package.

You can install Glances using Puppet: https://github.com/rverchere/puppet-glances

For the standalone mode, just run:

$ glances

For the Web server mode, run:

$ glances -w

and enter the URL http://<ip>:61208 in your favorite web browser.

For the client/server mode, run:

$ glances -s

on the server side and run:

$ glances -c <ip>

on the client one.

And RTFM, always.

For complete documentation see glances-doc.

If you have any question (after RTFM !), please post it on the official Q&A forum.

Nicolas Hennion (@nicolargo) <[email protected]>

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