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Package: procps (1:3.2.8-2)

/proc file system utilities

This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to provide information about the status of entries in its process table (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie").

It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.

Tags: System Administration: Monitoring, User Interface: Command Line, Text-based Interactive, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Interface Toolkit: Ncurses TUI, Purpose: Monitoring, Works with: Running Programs

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  • dep: initscripts
    scripts for initializing and shutting down the system
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4) [amd64, hppa, i386, mips, mipsel]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.9) [s390]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.4) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.4.0) [armel]
    GCC support library
  • dep: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
    shared libraries for terminal handling
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality
  • rec: psmisc
    utilities that use the proc file system

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 240.1 kB656 kB [list of files]
armel 245.5 kB772 kB [list of files]
hppa 249.4 kB808 kB [list of files]
i386 224.0 kB680 kB [list of files]
ia64 300.1 kB1228 kB [list of files]
mips 237.1 kB860 kB [list of files]
mipsel 234.8 kB860 kB [list of files]
powerpc 239.8 kB792 kB [list of files]
s390 254.4 kB776 kB [list of files]
sparc 234.2 kB788 kB [list of files]