Install WTF Terminal Dashboard on Ubuntu 24.04

When working on Linux, it's often handy to have a customizable dashboard right inside the terminal to monitor different services and system stats. WTF (WTFutil) is an open-source terminal dashboard that allows developers and sysadmins to display widgets for logs, metrics, integrations, and more. This tutorial shows how to install WTF terminal dashboard on Ubuntu 24.04.

Install WTF

Start by retrieving the latest release tag from GitHub and saving it into a variable:

WTF_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/wtfutil/wtf/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')

Next, download the archive:

wget -qO wtf.tar.gz https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf/releases/latest/download/wtf_${WTF_VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz

Create a temporary directory and unpack the archive into it:

mkdir wtf-temp

tar xf wtf.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C wtf-temp

Move the binary into /usr/local/bin to make accessible system-wide:

sudo mv wtf-temp/wtfutil /usr/local/bin

We can check WTF version as follows:

wtfutil --version

Clean up temporary files used during installation:

rm -rf wtf.tar.gz wtf-temp

Testing WTF

Launch the dashboard by simply running:

wtfutil

The command will display widgets using default configuration. You can customize widgets by editing the configuration file inside the home directory at ~/.config/wtf/config.yml.

Uninstall WTF

If you decided to remove WTF, just remove the binary:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/wtfutil

Also, you can remove configuration files:

rm -rf ~/.config/wtf