Installing Procps-3.1.11

Estimated build time:           0.1 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  2 MB

Contents of Procps

(Last checked against version 2.0.7.)

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

Procps installs the following:

Program Files

free, kill, oldps, pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, vmstat, w and watch

Library Files

libproc.so

Procps Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 2.0.7.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld, strip
Coreutils: basename, install, ln, mv, pwd, rm, sort, tr
Gawk: awk
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: grep
Make: make
Sed: sed

Installation of Procps

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

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

Now compile Procps:

make

Install it:

make install

And remove a spurious library link:

rm /lib/libproc.so