Nutty

A Network Utility

Author: Siddhartha Das

A simple application made for elementary OS to provide essential information on network related aspects. The information presented in as the following tabs.

• My Info: Provides basic and detailed information for the device network card
  
• Usage: Provides network data usage in two views - historical usage and current usage
  
• Speed: Check Upload and Download speeds and get route times to a host
  
• Ports: Provides information on active ports and application using them on the local device
  
• Devices: Monitors, alerts and provides information on the other devices connected on the network
  

Check the Nutty website for details on features, shortcuts, installation guides for Ubuntu and other supported distros, etc. :
https://babluboy.github.io/nutty/

Building, Testing, and Installation from Source

You'll need the following dependencies to build:

• libgranite-dev
• libnotify-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libxml2-utils
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• libsqlite3-dev
• meson
• valac

And these dependencies to execute:

• net-tools
• nethogs
• nmap
• traceroute
• vnstat
• curl
• wireless-tools
• iproute2
• pciutils

Sometimes vnstat is not started upon install, use the appropriate init system command to start vnstat daemon i.e. sudo systemctl enable vnstat Run meson build to configure the build environment and run ninja test to build

git clone https://github.com/babluboy/nutty.git
cd nutty
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install, use sudo ninja install, then run with com.github.babluboy.nutty

sudo ninja install
com.github.babluboy.nutty

To uninstall, go to the build directory and run

sudo ninja uninstall

Installation from Deb package

To install Nutty from the .deb package, make sure you have installed all the above runtime dependencies of Nutty (no need for build dependencies). Then run the command below

sudo dpkg -i .deb

And to uninstall Nutty installed via .deb package run

sudo apt autoremove com.github.babluboy.nutty

If you want to directly build the .deb package of Nutty yourself then install the above build dependencies and then run

git clone https://github.com/babluboy/nutty.git
cd nutty
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
cd ..

Screenshot

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