Process Explorer for Linux

This tool is a 'swiss army knife' for programmers and system administrators to study per-process memory usage, IO usage, runtime memory leaks, TCP/UDP usage, and also process hierarchy.

The Linux Process Explorer was inspired by the Sysinternals Process Explorer tool by Microsoft.

INSTALLATION

For now, download the bleeding edge: procexp from https://github.com/wolfc01/procexp/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

Ubuntu 24.04.2, Mint 22.1

1. #!/usr/bin/env sh
   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install pip
   sudo apt install python3-venv
   sudo apt install tcpdump

2. #!/usr/bin/env bash
   cd ~
   python3 -m venv ~/procexp
   unzip procexp-master.zip 
   cd procexp-master
   ~/procexp/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

fedora workstation 41

1. #!/usr/bin/env sh
   sudo dnf install python3-pip
   

Start Process Explorer:

As a non-superuser user:

1. If on Wayland:

   #!/usr/bin/env bash
   export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland

2. Then, start the process explorer as follows:

   #!/usr/bin/env bash
   cd procexp-master
   ~/procexp/bin/python3 ./procexp.py

UNINSTALL

• For packages pip, python3-venv and tcpdump: those are standard packages, and can be removed using their uninstall instructions.
• For process explorer removal, remove ~/procexp and ~/procexp-master. Then your system is clean from all procexp traces.