How To Install procinfo on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install procinfo
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is procinfo
procinfo is:
This package provides three small programs that gather system information from diverse files under /proc and /sys and print it to the screen:
- lsdev - information from /proc about installed hardware;
- procinfo - system monitoring statistics from /proc and /sys;
- socklist - a summary of open network sockets from /proc/net.
There are three methods to install procinfo
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 procinfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install procinfo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install procinfo
Install procinfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install procinfo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install procinfo
Install procinfo 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 procinfo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install procinfo
How To Uninstall procinfo on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the procinfo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove procinfo
Uninstall procinfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall procinfo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove procinfo
Remove procinfo Configurations and Data
To remove procinfo
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge procinfo
Remove procinfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove procinfo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge procinfo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install procinfo
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.