How To Install procps on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install procps
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: minimal, ubuntu-core
Package: procps Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:3.3.16-1ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: required Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Craig Small [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 816 Provides: watch Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libncurses6 (>= 6), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libprocps8 (>= 2:3.3.16-1), libtinfo6 (>= 6), lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), init-system-helpers (>= 1.29~) Recommends: psmisc Conflicts: pgrep (« 3.3-5), w-bassman (« 1.0-3) Breaks: guymager (<= 0.5.9-1), open-vm-tools (<= 2011.12.20-562307-1) Filename: pool/main/p/procps/procps_3.3.16-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 232672 MD5sum: 9b28d6ea8f018453d620eb06d348dd52 SHA1: b19badd262c6bc2de0a3d0b648c42475e07b8929 SHA256: 709cb974ebb8f823aa88a3f45a5ad204d80e0004f95cca02190dc7c7918b4f4b Homepage: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps Description-en: /proc file system utilities 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. Task: minimal, ubuntu-core
There are three methods to install procps
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install procps
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.