How To Install s6 on Debian 10

Learn how to install s6 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. s6 is small and secure supervision software suite

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install s6 on Debian 10.

What is s6

s6 is:

s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools and runit, as well as various operations on processes and daemons. It is meant to be a toolbox for low-level process and service administration, providing different sets of independent tools that can be used within or without the framework, and that can be assembled together to achieve powerful functionality with a very small amount of code.

There are three methods to install s6 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install s6 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install s6 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install s6

Install s6 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install s6 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install s6

Install s6 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 s6 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install s6

How To Uninstall s6 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the s6 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove s6

Uninstall s6 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall s6 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove s6

Remove s6 Configurations and Data

To remove s6 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge s6

Remove s6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove s6 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge s6

Dependencies

s6 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install s6 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.