On 2017-05-09, Bob McGowan <ramjr0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I just tried the OP's command line and got the following error: > > $ top -b1 -hc > procps-ng 3.3.12 > Usage: > top -hv | -bcHiOSs -d secs -n max -u|U user -p pid(s) -o field -w [cols] > > I can say with assurance that I have not manually installed anything > related to procps or top. > > And the policy for procps says: > > $ apt-cache policy procps > procps: > Installed: 2:3.3.12-3 > Candidate: 2:3.3.12-3 > Version table: > > Those version numbers match the numeric part of the 'top' output. > > Could it be that Debian has just dropped the '-ng' from the name? >
I'm reading that in 2011 Debian, Fedora and openSUSE forked procps (which became 'procps-ng'-- next generation). I guess the package has gone back to being called procps (or something)? https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/wikis/faq -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
