lfs-book/chapter06/psmisc-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Psmisc</title>

<para>Install Psmisc by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/ &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Psmisc installs the
<filename>/usr/share/man/man1/pidof.1</filename> man page, but Psmisc's
pidof program isn't installed by default. Generally, this isn't a problem
because we later install the Sysvinit package, which provides
a better pidof program.</para>

<para>It's up to you now to decide if you are going to use the Sysvinit 
package, which provides a pidof program, or not. If you are going to, you 
should remove Psmisc's pidof man page by running:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>rm /usr/share/man/man1/pidof.1</userinput></screen></para>

<para>If you're not going to use Sysvinit, you should complete this
package's installation by creating the <filename>/bin/pidof</filename>
symlink by running:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>ln -s killall /bin/pidof</userinput></screen></para>

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