6.42. Installing Procinfo-18

6.42.1. Installation of Procinfo

Install Procinfo by running the following commands:

make LDLIBS=-lncurses &&
make install

6.42.2. Command explanations

make LDLIBS=-lncurses : This will use -lncurses instead of -ltermcap when building procinfo. This is done because libtermcap is declared obsolete in favor of libncurses.

6.42.3. Contents

The Procinfo package contains the procinfo program.

6.42.4. Description

procinfo gathers some system data from the /proc directory and prints it nicely formatted on the standard output device.

6.42.5. Dependencies

Procinfo-18 needs the following to be installed:

as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package

install from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package