How To Install runit on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit on Debian 9.
What is runit
runit is:
runit is a collection of tools to provide system-wide service supervision and to manage services. Contrary to sysv init, it not only cares about starting and stopping services, but also supervises the service daemons while they are running. Amongst other things, it provides a reliable interface to send signals to service daemons without the need for pid-files, and a log facility with automatic log file rotation and disk space limits.
runit service supervision can run under sysv init or replace the init system completely. Complete init replacement needs to be done by hand (see https://bugs.debian.org/861536)
There are three methods to install runit on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install runit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install runit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install runit
Install runit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install runit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install runit
Install runit Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install runit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install runit
How To Uninstall runit on Debian 9
To uninstall only the runit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove runit
Uninstall runit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall runit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove runit
Remove runit Configurations and Data
To remove runit configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge runit
Remove runit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove runit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge runit
Dependencies
runit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
