How To Install killer on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install killer on Debian 10.
What is killer
killer is:
killer is a perl script that gets rid of background jobs. Background jobs are defined as processes that belong to users who are not currently logged into the machine. Jobs can be run in the background (and are exempt from killer’s actions) if their scheduling priority has been reduced by increasing their nice(1) value or if they are being run through condor.
When the package is installed, a cron job is installed to run killer once an hour.
There are three methods to install killer 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 killer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install killer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install killer
Install killer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install killer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install killer
Install killer 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 killer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install killer
How To Uninstall killer on Debian 10
To uninstall only the killer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove killer
Uninstall killer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall killer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove killer
Remove killer Configurations and Data
To remove killer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge killer
Remove killer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove killer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge killer
Dependencies
killer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install killer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.