How To Install procps-ng-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install procps-ng-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. procps-ng-devel.x86_64 is System and process monitoring utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install procps-ng-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `procps-ng-devel.x86_64`

System and process monitoring utilities development headers

We can use yum to install procps-ng-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install procps-ng-devel.x86_64.

Install procps-ng-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install procps-ng-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install procps-ng-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall procps-ng-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the procps-ng-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove procps-ng-devel.x86_64

procps-ng-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/proc
/usr/include/proc/alloc.h
/usr/include/proc/devname.h
/usr/include/proc/escape.h
/usr/include/proc/procps.h
/usr/include/proc/pwcache.h
/usr/include/proc/readproc.h
/usr/include/proc/sig.h
/usr/include/proc/slab.h
/usr/include/proc/sysinfo.h
/usr/include/proc/version.h
/usr/include/proc/wchan.h
/usr/include/proc/whattime.h
/usr/lib64/libprocps.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libprocps.pc
/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-devel-3.3.10
/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-devel-3.3.10/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-devel-3.3.10/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/man/man3/openproc.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/readproc.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/readproctab.3.gz

References

procps-ng-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install procps-ng-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.