Installing Procps-3.1.5

Estimated build time:           0.14 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
Fileutils: install, ln, mv, rm
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: grep
Make: make
Gawk: awk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, pwd
Textutils: sort, tr

Installation of Procps

This package requires its patch to be applied before you can install it. This patch fixes a locale problem that makes w crash under certain locale settings. Apply the patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../procps-3.1.5.patch

Compile Procps:

make

Finish installing the package:

make XSCPT="" install

The XSCPT option will set the Makefile variable XSCPT to an empty value so that XConsole installation is disabled. Otherwise, make install tries to copy the file XConsole to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. That directory does not exist because X is not installed.