How To Install psmisc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psmisc
on CentOS 7.
What is psmisc
The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs of processes that are using specified files or filesystems.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install psmisc
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install psmisc.
Install psmisc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install psmisc
using yum
by running the following command:
Install psmisc on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install psmisc
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall psmisc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the psmisc
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psmisc
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.