How to Install procps in Ubuntu 18.04



Install procps by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install procps

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.

Homepage: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

Version: 2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1

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