How To Install cgroup-tools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cgroup-tools on Debian 10.
What is cgroup-tools
cgroup-tools is:
Control Groups (cgroups) provide a mechanism for aggregating/partitioning sets of tasks, and all their future children, into hierarchical groups with specialized behaviour.
libcgroup allows one to manipulate, control, administrate and monitor cgroups and the associated controllers.
This package contains the command-line tools.
There are three methods to install cgroup-tools 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 cgroup-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cgroup-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cgroup-tools
Install cgroup-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cgroup-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cgroup-tools
Install cgroup-tools 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 cgroup-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cgroup-tools
How To Uninstall cgroup-tools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cgroup-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cgroup-tools
Uninstall cgroup-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cgroup-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cgroup-tools
Remove cgroup-tools Configurations and Data
To remove cgroup-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cgroup-tools
Remove cgroup-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cgroup-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cgroup-tools
Dependencies
cgroup-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cgroup-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.