Homepage: http://netactview.sourceforge.net/index.html
Download:
32bit PC (x86): netactview_0.6.4-1_i386.deb
64bit PC (amd64): netactview_0.6.4-1_amd64.deb
Users of Mint 17.x, who want to install Net Activity View (netactview), can simply download the .deb package which matches their system architecture, right click on the downloaded file in their file-manager and select "open with gDebi" and install the application.
Only users of Mint 18.x, who want to install Net Activity View (netactview), will have to correct the name of a shared library package, which netactview depends upon, to match the changed package name on Mint 18.x. Only afterwards, gDebi will be willing and able to install netactview on Mint 18.x as well.
Step by step instruction for Mint 18.x 32-bit:
- Open a terminal window and prepare the needed directory structure
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cd ~/Downloads mkdir Netactview mkdir Netactview/new mkdir Netactview/org mkdir Netactview/work
- Save download file netactview_0.6.4-1_i386.deb or netactview_0.6.4-1_amd64.deb to
~/Downloads/Netactview/org
- Extract the content of the original .deb file
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cd ~/Downloads/Netactview/work dpkg-deb -v -R ../org/netactview_0.6.4-1_i386.deb .
- Edit file control
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cd ~/Downloads/Netactview/work/DEBIAN xed control # Inside xed navigate to line starting with "Depends:" (without the double quotes) # search for: "libgtop2-7 (>= 2.20.0)" - replace by: "libgtop-2.0-10 (>= 2.20.0)" # without the double quotes # save & quit xed
- Give directories and files back to root
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cd ~/Downloads/Netactview/work sudo chown -R root:root DEBIAN/ usr/
sudo
will prompt for your password. While you type it there will be no visual feedback. Type it and press the enter key. - Build the new .deb file
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cd ~/Downloads/Netactview sudo dpkg-deb --build work new/netactview_0.6.4-1_i386.deb
- cleanup work directory
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cd ~/Downloads/Netactview sudo rm -r work/*
- Install Net Activity View
Inside your graphical filemanager navigate to~/Downloads/Netactview/new
, right click
. - netactview_0.6.4-1_i386.deb and select "open in gdebi" and install. No error messages must occur.
. - Create needed symlink named libgtop-2.0.so.7
Netactview looks hardcoded for the shared library namelibgtop-2.0.so.7
. Therefore before launching Netactview for the first time, it is necessary to create this name as a symlink pointing to the real shared library.
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cd /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu sudo ln -s libgtop-2.0.so.10.0.0 libgtop-2.0.so.7
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cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu sudo ln -s libgtop-2.0.so.10.0.0 libgtop-2.0.so.7
- Invocation:
Net Activity View can be invoked by executing the commandnetactview
.
Also there should be a launcher labelled "Net Activitiy Viewer" inside the Mnint menu > Internet, which you can click on.
Same steps as above. Just replace the filename
netactview_0.6.4-1_i386.deb
by netactview_0.6.4-1_amd64.deb
wherever appropriate.Epilogue:
NetActView has last been updated in 2015. This raises concerns that development has stopped.
The NetActView source code is available on its homepage as well. In case someone is more comfortable with compiling and linking from source code, instead of installing a .deb package from outside the official software repositories, please, go ahead.
Good luck.