How To Install procps on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install procps on Ubuntu.
What is procps
procps is:
This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a “pseudo” file system dynamically generated by the kernel to provide information about the status of entries in its process table (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a “zombie”).
It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.
There are three methods to install procps on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install procps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install procps using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install procps
Install procps Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install procps using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install procps
Install procps Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install procps using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install procps
How To Uninstall procps on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the procps package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove procps
Uninstall procps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall procps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove procps
Remove procps Configurations and Data
To remove procps configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge procps
Remove procps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove procps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge procps
Dependencies
procps have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install procps package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.