Graphical network connections viewer for Linux

To get the last release version, please use the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~chipmunk.sm/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chipmunk.sm/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install tcpview

https://launchpad.net/~chipmunk.sm/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

Home page:

https://github.com/chipmunk-sm/tcpview

TcpView For Linux. Touch screen friendly design graphical network connections viewer for Linux.

Names – Show command line, name of the process that owns endpoint. Pause - Stop loading new records Record - Do not delete old records. Copy - Copy the data of a row to the clipboard Save – Export data to a CSV or XML file Whois - Service gives you the ability to find out the registered domain holder. Zoom slider - Will help you select appropriate font size. 

Read and parse the information available from

 /proc/net/tcp /proc/net/udp /proc/net/tcp6 /proc/net/udp6 /proc/net/raw /proc/net/raw6 

The data used from output is:

sl - The number of the line in the output listing. local_address rem_address st - The socket status. Uid - The ID of the user that owns the socket. Inode - A cryptic-looking number that identifies the socket to the Linux virtual filesystem. 

Loop through /proc/pid/fd/ for collect "inode list" and associated "command line" data

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential $ sudo apt-get install qtcreator $ sudo apt-get install qt5-default $ sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

Open terminal in your preferred folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/chipmunk-sm/tcpview.git

Either open tcpview.pro with Qt Creator for editing and building, or from the terminal:

$ cd tcpview $ qmake $ make

$ ./tcpview

Use the Qt Linguist tool to translate text

$ sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools

Open tcpview folder with terminal and update translations:

$ lupdate -no-obsolete -verbose -pro tcpview.pro

Open all editable translations:

$ cd translations $ linguist language_en.ts language_cs.ts language_de.ts language_fr.ts language_ja.ts language_pl.ts language_ru.ts language_sl.ts language_zh_CN.ts language_zh_TW.ts $ cd ..

And update .qm files:

$ lrelease -removeidentical -compress tcpview.pro

Finally, rebuild tcpview.

Add a new translations xx.ts file to tcpview.pro, rebuild tcpview and add your new xx.qm to tcpview.qrc. Finally rebuild tcpview.