Install killport on Ubuntu 24.04

The killport is a command line tool used to terminate processes that are running on a specific network port. This is especially useful when you need to free up a port that is being occupied by a process, and can't manually identify and kill the process using traditional methods.

Install killport

Download the tar.gz file from releases page of the killport repository:

wget -qO killport.tar.gz https://github.com/jkfran/killport/releases/latest/download/killport-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

Extract executable file to /usr/local/bin directory:

sudo tar xf killport.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin

We can check killport version as follows:

killport --version

Remove tar.gz file:

rm -rf killport.tar.gz

Testing killport

The --dry-run option lets you preview which processes would be terminated. For example, this command shows what would be killed on port 80:

sudo killport --dry-run 80

After reviewing, you can run this command to kill the processes listening on the specified port:

sudo killport 80

Uninstall killport

If killport is no longer needed, remove the executable file:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/killport