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Is there a way to remove (uninstall) top (table of processes)?

Chairman Meow
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  • What is your end goal? The top command is provided by the procps package - I'm not sure it's possible to remove that without destroying your system. In any case, removing the top command itself doesn't prevent people from accessing the same information by other means (e.g. via the /proc filesystem directly). – steeldriver Jun 10 '23 at 22:17
  • @steeldriver thanks for that info. I thought it was an app like other ones that I can just remove if I don't use/need it. – Chairman Meow Jun 10 '23 at 22:24
  • Why bother to uninstall this standard Unix/Linux utility? Simply don't use it. Is this an XY problem? What's behind your desire to remove top? – waltinator Jun 11 '23 at 01:31

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Removing utilities that comes with a standard Linux installation might not be a worthwhile option.
It might even be a source of later functional problems within the OS; e.g. attempting removal or update of python is a typical problem creator.

If you have limited space on your system disk(s) then consider software you yourself have installed as options for removal.

$ apt-mark showmanual | less will show you a list of software packages that has been marked as "manually installed" -
which happens if you have done $ sudo apt install _package_name_ at some moment in time.

Additionally; if there is more than one kernel version installed, those you're not using are often "free" to remove. $ dpkg --list | grep -E '^ii.*linux-image' will list them.

$ apt-mark --help and $ apt --help will show more options.

Hannu
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