How To Install Stacer On PopOS

To Install Stacer On PopOS
System monitoring and optimizer apps are every essential for any Operating System and Stacer is one such app specifically created for optimizing Linux machines. It is a GUI based, open-sourced resource monitoring system and its dashboard displays CPU, Memory, Disk and System information. It is so simple to install Stacer On PopOS and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

Installation

Add a repository that is required for the installation of Stacer.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:oguzhaninan/stacer
 Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring
https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~oguzhaninan/+archive/ubuntu/stacer
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpyxu66u7e/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpyxu66u7e/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 0F6444BB6902FCAF: public key " Launchpad PPA for Oguzhan Inan"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

After adding repository Start with updating the system repositories.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oguzhaninan/stacer/ubuntu artful InRelease [15.9 kB]
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease                                          
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu artful InRelease                                 
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease       
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease                               
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oguzhaninan/stacer/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages [468 B]         
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oguzhaninan/stacer/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages [468 B]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oguzhaninan/stacer/ubuntu artful/main Translation-en [176 B]
Fetched 17.0 kB in 1s (8,754 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Now you can proceed the Installation of stacer as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install stacer -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  stacer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 150 not upgraded.
Need to get 21.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 85.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oguzhaninan/stacer/ubuntu artful/main amd64 stacer all 1.0.9-1~artful [21.4 MB]
Fetched 21.4 MB in 1min 36s (221 kB/s)                                                                            
Selecting previously unselected package stacer.
(Reading database ... 227884 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../stacer_1.0.9-1~artful_all.deb ...
Unpacking stacer (1.0.9-1~artful) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up stacer (1.0.9-1~artful) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...

You can access the stacer from the activities menu.

You can check that Stacer has been installed successfully.

With this, the method to install stacer on popOS comes to an end.

Tag : Stacer Pop OS
FAQ
Q
where to launch the application of stacer in ubuntu?
A
You can launch the Stacer application by simply typing its name into your terminal. Or, you can do it graphically through your activities search bar in which you can find and launch it.
Q
is there any option to install with dependency like yum ?
A
yes, you can use "gdebi" command for resolving the dependencies.
Q
where to get the source code for Stacer?
A
refer the link as follow to get the source code for Stacer

"https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer/archive/v1.0.9.tar.gz"
Q
why you have used gdebi?
A
Gdebi is not default package manager for Ubuntu. But with that all required dependencies will also get installed along with that
Q
Why E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
A
rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/lock do this and continue