To build all programs in psmisc, simply execute make To install fuser, killall, pstree, and their man pages, run (as root) make install fuser is installed in /bin, killall and pstree are installed in /usr/bin pidof is not installed by make install because different versions of pidof exist and may already be installed. If you want to install the pidof that comes with psmisc (and its man page), simply run (as root) make install-pidof