Author

M Nasimul Haque

Web

http://www.nasim.me.uk

A simple desktop viewer for your Linux network bandwidth usage.

This is built on PySide - a python binding for Qt4 by Nokia. A Qt4 runtime along with a python installation is required. It also requires SQLObject, a python based ORM.

Download the source code from github and unzip it to a folder. The rest of the document assumes that it has been downloaded to ~/Downloads folder and extracted to ifmon folder.

The source distribution includes a install script for Ubuntu (including Lucid and greater). To install it just open up a terminal and run the following commands.:

$ cd ~/Downloads/ifmon/
$ ./install_ubuntu.sh

This will install all the dependencies and ifmon itself. After a successful installation, you can run ifmon either from the command line through ifmon command or double click the shortcut installed on your desktop.

There is a text-based UI available also for terminal-environment. You can run it via the command ifmon -c.

For other linux distributions you need to install the following from your package manager.

1. pyside >= 1.0.3
2. python SQLObject >= 0.7
3. python urwid >= 0.9

After satisfying the requirements you can either double click the main.py file or run it from the commandline via:

$ cd ~/Downloads/ifmon
$ sudo python install_other.py

Note that, this installation also assumes that your OS uses cron job and a folder for job listing exists at /etc/cron.d/. If this is not true for your system, please try some other method of scheduling ifmon.py in your system.

Please use this github issue page for the bug reports and feature requests. Thanks.

The source code is licensed under MIT license. Please hack it to suit yourself or even better contribute your code or suggestions to it.

Copyright (c) 2011 M. Nasimul Haque

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