How to install Glances- a system monitor

[rsal]

I want to install Glances- a system monitoring application, but it is not there in Gslapt / Sourcery. Following are some links:
http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/M ... 8055.shtml
Apparently, slackbuild is available but it is appearing in Sourcery application:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/glances/
https://github.com/tibux/SlackBuilds/bl ... SlackBuild

It can be installed manually also: http://www.gilandre.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cg ... allGlances

What will be the best method?

[aurlaent]

The slackbuild is for slackware 14.1
You could try downloading it and the associated files to see if it works.
Read the README file for dependencies.

You could use slkbuild to create your own slackbuild and package.

[mimosa]

Or just install with pip; make sure the latter is installed first:

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#slapt-get -i pip
#pip install Glances

It depends on psutil which will be automatically installed by pip if you don't have it, or you can install it from src first instead:

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#slapt-src -i psutil 

The disadvantage of pip is packages aren't tracked by Salix's package management system.

[rsal]

The disadvantage of pip is packages aren't tracked by Salix's package management system.

Since slackbuild is available, is it possible to install Glances so that it is tracked by Salixos package management system?
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/glances/
https://github.com/tibux/SlackBuilds/bl ... SlackBuild

[mimosa]

Well, you can try it - but when I tried to build the psutil slackbuild, it didn't work. The Glances one won't work without that.

If you're going to use pip, you can keep track of things by doing

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pip freeze

which lists exactly what's installed (whether by pip or not) in python.

[rsal]

Thanks for guiding.