How To Install libprocps8 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprocps8 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libprocps8
libprocps8 is:
The libprocps library is a way of accessing information out of the /proc filesystem.
This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs compiled with libprocps. Task: minimal, ubuntu-core
Package: libprocps8 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:3.3.16-1ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: required Section: libs Source: procps Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Craig Small [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 128 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libsystemd0 (>= 209) Replaces: procps (« 1:3.3.2-1) Filename: pool/main/p/procps/libprocps8_3.3.16-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 33084 MD5sum: 9960912c2dfcfa133d7c73a9631ba28f SHA1: 6009758ced342e94c7ce54819ee531696839a1e9 SHA256: 372346857803812ea370c0130519630b8e02af64e6a1e39ec7f18cccca179777 Homepage: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps Description-en: library for accessing process information from /proc The libprocps library is a way of accessing information out of the /proc filesystem.
This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs compiled with libprocps. Task: minimal, ubuntu-core
There are three methods to install libprocps8 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 libprocps8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libprocps8 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprocps8
Install libprocps8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprocps8 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprocps8
Install libprocps8 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 libprocps8 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprocps8
How To Uninstall libprocps8 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libprocps8 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprocps8
Uninstall libprocps8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprocps8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprocps8
Remove libprocps8 Configurations and Data
To remove libprocps8 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprocps8
Remove libprocps8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprocps8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprocps8
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprocps8 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.