bmon software package provides portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bmon
bmon is installed in your system.
Make ensure the bmon package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bmon *
You will get with bmon package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Network |
| Package | bmon |
| Version | 2.0.1-3 |
| Description | portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator |
| Sub Section | Net |