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Following update of my Kubuntu, I'm not able to monitor my network consumption using nethogs:

sudo nethogs enp1s0
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?

Kernel

$ uname -a
Linux xyz 4.2.0-27-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 04:49:08 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Release

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 15.10
Release:        15.10
Codename:       wily

Version

$ nethogs -V
version 0.8.0
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  • it even crashes here..., the github one seems good tho Feb 11, 2016 at 1:21

2 Answers 2

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This is solved by version 0.8.1.

As it's not available in repo nor PPA you need to build it (it is really easy and quickly done).

Fetch and extract the most recent version (as of August 2016, v0.8.5)

wget -c https://github.com/raboof/nethogs/archive/v0.8.5.tar.gz
tar xf v0.8.5.tar.gz 
cd ./nethogs-0.8.5/

Install dependencies and build

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libpcap-dev
make && sudo make install 

Check and run

nethogs -V
sudo nethogs
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    Better with checkinstall that we can manage it easily, also avoiding conflict with the default repo from ubuntu. Just check license and version to update this command: make && sudo -k checkinstall --pkgsource="https://github.com/raboof/nethogs/" --pkglicense="GPL2" --deldesc=no --nodoc --maintainer="$USER\\<$USER@$HOSTNAME\\>" --pkgarch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) --pkgversion="0.8.2" --pkgrelease="SNAPSHOT" --pkgname=nethogs make install. Feb 11, 2016 at 2:17
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    @ÉdouardLopez checkinstall will call make install and track everything it does to create a deb package :) Feb 13, 2016 at 0:29
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    You can use checkinstall if you want it to update when the next versions roll in
    – GuySoft
    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:35
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    @TylerCollier the $PATH variable was probably updated and need to be reexported so you can access correct version. You can install the synaptic package and check where it is installed with which nethogs, then reinstall from source and check again to see if the path changes. Apr 4, 2016 at 8:20
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    I can confirm the command from @AquariusPower works in gNewSense 4 Ucclia (upgraded into Debian Jessie) perfectly. I am using NetHogs 0.8.1 now. My binary of nethogs here belongs to /usr/local/sbin/nethogs. Thank you. Jun 5, 2016 at 6:37
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You can also build from latest source code in the git repository. You still need to install the dependency packages first. After building you can run nethogs from your current directory:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libpcap-dev
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raboof/nethogs.git
cd nethogs
make
sudo ./src/nethogs

You can also find the instructions on the Nethogs project page.

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    Please do not just dump a bunch of commands here but also explain what they do and why you think they solve the problem. Thanks.
    – Byte Commander
    Mar 24, 2016 at 8:22
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    I think is self explanatory, 1 - install the software dependencies, 2 - download the latest source from Git, 3 - goes to the newly created directory, 4 - compiles the program, 5 - runs the program
    – D.Snap
    Mar 25, 2016 at 2:34
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    I've added the requested explanation in the answer and a link to the official instructions. Mar 31, 2016 at 8:41
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    Not everybody has git nor want's to install it. Dowloading the tar and building is good enough.
    – m3nda
    Apr 12, 2016 at 23:58
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    the current repo compiles the executable into the src/ subdirectory, so the last command needs to be sudo src/nethogs
    – drevicko
    May 3, 2016 at 21:52

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