Installing Psmisc-20.1

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Installation of Psmisc

Install Psmisc by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall, pidof and pstree programs.

Description

fuser

fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specified files or file systems.

killall

killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands.

pidof

Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints those id's on standard output.

pstree

pstree shows running processes as a tree.

Dependencies

Psmisc-20.1 needs the following to be installed:


sh from the bash package

as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package

cmp from the diffutils package

chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package

cc from the gcc package

egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package

basename from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package