killall in Debian?

Yesterday a friend of mine (centos fan) asked me: “I can’t find the killall command on Debian. How can I install it?” This short post is the answer to this simple question, but for someone not familiar with debian/ubuntu this might be useful.

The answer is simple: install the psmisc package:
aptitude install psmisc
Besides killall this contains also the fuser and pstree commands.

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4 Responses to “killall in Debian?”

1
leave
18th August 2008, 09:50
Just use pkill
2
anon
21st November 2008, 14:22
hey, this blog is copying ur contents ..

chk out

http://linuxandmicrocontrollertips.blogspot.com/2008/11/killall-command-on-debian.html

more to be copied from you ,.
3
duke
30th December 2008, 04:21
Hey anon,
it doesn’t seem that the content at the address you specified is a copy…
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- Marius -
3rd January 2009, 17:13
@duke: you are right that page is now different. At the time anon first reported this, the content was copy/paste. Even now if you look on that spam site you will easily find about a dozen of my posts copy/pasted identical… I will not post links as it doesn’t make any sense in doing that.

This is sad, and you would think in a field as the open source / linux things like this will not happen, but this is not the case and this is not the first time I sow this. You can fight for this and try to take legal actions, but I found out that this is just not worth the time, and the wasted time is just more precious to do something more useful. Eventually the potential users of such sites will find out the true nature of the owner that is just copying content from other sites without any reference…