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Install Netspeed Indicator Applet in Ubuntu 14.04 Unity

Last updated: April 29, 2014

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Indicator Network is a stupid traffic monitor applet for Ubuntu Unity, inspired by the old netspeed GNOME applet.

It displays the total current network traffic on system tray area on panel and you can check out the current download & upload speed from its drop-down menu.

netspeed indicator Ubuntu 14.04

The indicator will be put left of all your other indicators. If this is undesirable, the ordering index can be changed in gsettings:/apps/indicators/netspeed (use dconf-editor, available in Software Center).

netspeed indicator Ubuntu 14.04

To install this indicator applet:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, choose one method from below and run the commands one by one:

1. Compile from source (github.com):

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtop2-dev libgtk-3-dev libappindicator3-dev git-core

git clone git://github.com/mgedmin/indicator-netspeed.git

cd indicator-netspeed

make

sudo make install

Once installed, start the applet via:

indicator-netspeed &

You need to manually add this applet into Startup Applications (open it from Unity Dash).

2. Install from PPA (webupd8.org):

Webupd8 Team has made this into PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04. Add the PPA and install the applet via below commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install indicator-netspeed

Once installed, netspeed indicator automatically starts at next login.

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    8 responses to Install Netspeed Indicator Applet in Ubuntu 14.04 Unity

    1. Dziegiel May 29, 2014 at 6:56 pm

      Thanks for this!

    2. Wayne S August 5, 2014 at 10:50 pm

      Unfortunately this applet doesn’t show the up and down speeds separately in the panel.

      To me this is essential for monitoring what is clogging my network.

      • Moritz August 15, 2014 at 12:11 pm

        @Wayne S: Overwrite your indicator-netspeed.c before compiling using this version and you will have them side by side ;-)

    3. Suherman February 17, 2015 at 2:25 am

      Hello, Ji m thank’s for your article.

      i have question, i’ve installed netspeed applet with first methode via compile.
      my question is.. how to uninstall it? thank you for your time. :)

      • Ji m February 18, 2015 at 8:51 am

        If you’re lucky, running sudo make uninstall in the indicator-netspeed directory (when you were running make install) will remove it. It’s up to the authors to provide that.

    4. smkn February 23, 2015 at 11:34 pm

      i get this
      smkn@smkn-blo:~/indicator-netspeed$ \sudo make install
      install –mode=755 indicator-netspeed /usr/bin/
      install: cannot stat ‘indicator-netspeed’: No such file or directory
      make: *** [install] Error 1

    5. Mashud June 23, 2015 at 5:02 pm

      i like your trick….well done.
      but how to install .tar , .tar.gz , .tar.bz2

    6. loading kura kura October 14, 2015 at 3:43 pm

      thanks sir i m succes netspeed.png