6.53. Installing Psmisc-21.3

6.53.1. Contents of Psmisc

The Psmisc package contains three programs which help manage the /proc directory.

Installed programs: fuser, killall and pstree

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6.53.3. Psmisc Installation Dependencies

Psmisc depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.

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6.53.5. Installation of Psmisc

Prepare Psmisc for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/

The meaning of the configure option:

• --exec-prefix=/: This causes the binaries to be installed in /bin and not in /usr/bin. As the Psmisc programs are often used in bootscripts, they should be available also when the /usr filesystem isn't mounted.

Compile the package:

make

And install it:

make install

By default Psmisc's pidof program isn't installed. Generally, this isn't a problem because we later install the Sysvinit package, which provides a better pidof program. But if you're not going to use Sysvinit, you should complete the installation of Psmisc by creating the following symlink:

ln -s killall /bin/pidof