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# 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

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## 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

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## 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

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