How To Install needrestart on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on CentOS 7.

What is needrestart

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.

We can use yum or dnf to install needrestart on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install needrestart.

Install needrestart on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install needrestart using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install needrestart

Install needrestart on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install needrestart using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install needrestart

How To Uninstall needrestart on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove needrestart

References

• needrestart website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.