How To Install psmisc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psmisc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is psmisc
psmisc is:
This package contains miscellaneous utilities that use the proc FS:
- fuser: identifies processes that are using files or sockets.
- killall: kills processes by name (e.g. “killall -HUP named”).
- peekfd: shows the data traveling over a file descriptor.
- pstree: shows currently running processes as a tree.
- prtstat: print the contents of /proc/
/stat Task: standard
There are three methods to install psmisc
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 psmisc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install psmisc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install psmisc
Install psmisc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install psmisc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install psmisc
Install psmisc 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 psmisc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install psmisc
How To Uninstall psmisc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the psmisc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove psmisc
Uninstall psmisc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall psmisc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove psmisc
Remove psmisc Configurations and Data
To remove psmisc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge psmisc
Remove psmisc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove psmisc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psmisc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psmisc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.