How to Install and Uninstall procps Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "procps" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install procps on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                procps
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "procps" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall procps on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                procps
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the procps package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: procps
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:3.3.17-5ubuntu3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Craig Small
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1388
Provides: watch
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libncurses6 (>= 6), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libprocps8 (>= 2:3.3.16-1), libtinfo6 (>= 6), lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), init-system-helpers (>= 1.29~)
Recommends: psmisc
Breaks: guymager (<= 0.5.9-1), manpages-de (<< 4.9.1-2), manpages-fr (<< 4.9.1-2), manpages-fr-extra (<< 20151231+nmu1), manpages-pl (<< 1:4.9.1-2), open-vm-tools (<= 2011.12.20-562307-1)
Replaces: manpages-de (<< 4.9.1-2), manpages-fr (<< 4.9.1-2), manpages-fr-extra (<< 20151231+nmu1), manpages-pl (<< 1:4.9.1-2)
Filename: pool/main/p/procps/procps_3.3.17-5ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 378094
MD5sum: 7a95b89ca948bef149deaebac6390184
SHA1: 9be1be872fa21fda2b97e04878d2723165dfdf32
SHA256: a32af459636f3b1782a9cd5541ba2ac15301b857ef5bb48142afb6d98c0102b5
SHA512: 334bd5c9431ccd7022561d4c6e63d9fc3c38b921e2748d05e01107f0c6ae7cd296c5a204204d388d6b22749fc2e42a26941541e053d1bd738a18ad6e0f4ca008
Homepage: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
Description-en: /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").
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It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop,
snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.
Description-md5: 943f3288c1aaa379fca73a3ff1a35278
Task: minimal, server-minimal