How To Install runit-sysv on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit-sysv on Debian 9.
What is runit-sysv
runit-sysv 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.
Presence of this package ensures, that runit will be started via /etc/inittab.
There are three methods to install runit-sysv 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-sysv 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-sysv using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install runit-sysv
Install runit-sysv Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install runit-sysv using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install runit-sysv
Install runit-sysv 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-sysv using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install runit-sysv
How To Uninstall runit-sysv on Debian 9
To uninstall only the runit-sysv package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove runit-sysv
Uninstall runit-sysv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall runit-sysv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove runit-sysv
Remove runit-sysv Configurations and Data
To remove runit-sysv configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge runit-sysv
Remove runit-sysv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove runit-sysv configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge runit-sysv
Dependencies
runit-sysv have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit-sysv package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
