How To Install pslist on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pslist
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pslist
pslist is:
pslist is a simple utility to list the process IDs (PIDs) of a process and all its children, and its children’s children, and so on. If invoked with a command name which ends in ‘kill’, it sends a signal to a selected group of processes. If invoked with a command name which ends in ‘renice’, it sets the nice level of the selected group of processes.
There are three methods to install pslist
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pslist Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pslist
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pslist
Install pslist Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pslist
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pslist
Install pslist 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 pslist
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pslist
How To Uninstall pslist on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pslist
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pslist
Uninstall pslist And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pslist
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pslist
Remove pslist Configurations and Data
To remove pslist
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pslist
Remove pslist configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pslist
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pslist
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pslist
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.