6.52.1. Contents of Procps

The Procps package provides programs to monitor and halt system processes. Procps gathers information about processes via the /proc directory.

Installed programs: free, kill, pgrep, pkill, pmap, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch

Installed library: libproc.so

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6.52.3. Procps Installation Dependencies

Procps depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, Ncurses.

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6.52.5. Installation of Procps

First fix a problem that can crash w under certain locale settings:

patch -Np1 -i ../procps-3.1.11-locale-fix.patch

Now compile Procps:

make

Install it:

make install

And remove a spurious library link:

rm /lib/libproc.so