Information about the package, procps, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The procps package is designed for, System and process monitoring utilities.
Package Name:
procps
Summary:
System and process monitoring utilities
Description:
The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch and pdwx. The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five, and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block I/O, traps, and CPU activity. The pwdx command reports the current working directory of a process or processes.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.2.8
Release:
45.el6_9.1
Size:
464 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Control the procps package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install procps
This command will install procps on the server.
yum remove procps
This command will un-install procps on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove procps, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove procps
This command will un-install procps on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove procps when using the -y flag.
yum update procps
This command will update procps to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove procps, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update procps
This command will update procps to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove procps when using the -y flag.
yum info procps
This command will show you core information about the procps package.
yum deplist procps
This command will show you the dependencies for procps. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update procps
This command will check if there is an update waiting on procps. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.