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Quick installation of procps:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: procps
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install procps
Package Details | |
| Package: | procps |
| Version: | 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.4 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://procps.sf.net/ |
| Description: | /proc file system utilities This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to provide information about the status of entries in its process table (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie"). . It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch. Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://procps.sf.net/ |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | admin |
How to install procps on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If procps is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L procps' will give followin error.
Installing procps:
After system update use the following command to install procps:
sudo apt-get install procps
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove procps from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the procps from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the procps following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove procps
Following command is used to remove the procps package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove procps
This will remove procps and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing procps with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge procps
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove procps
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with procps package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
