How To Install needrestart on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Debian 10.
What is needrestart
needrestart is:
needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.
Features:
- supports (but does not require) systemd
- binary blacklisting (i.e. display managers)
- tries to detect required restarts of interpreter based daemons (supports Java, Perl, Python, Ruby)
- tries to detect required restarts of containers (docker, LXC)
- tries to detect pending kernel upgrades
- tries to detect pending microcode upgrades for Intel CPUs
- could be used as nagios check_command
- fully integrated into apt/dpkg using hooks
There are three methods to install needrestart 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 needrestart Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install needrestart using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install needrestart
Install needrestart Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install needrestart using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install needrestart
Install needrestart 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 needrestart using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install needrestart
How To Uninstall needrestart on Debian 10
To uninstall only the needrestart package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove needrestart
Uninstall needrestart And Its Dependencies
To uninstall needrestart and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove needrestart
Remove needrestart Configurations and Data
To remove needrestart configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge needrestart
Remove needrestart configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove needrestart configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge needrestart
Dependencies
needrestart have the following dependencies:
- perl
- dpkg
- gettext-base
- libintl-perl
- libproc-processtable-perl
- libsort-naturally-perl
- libmodule-scandeps-perl
- libterm-readkey-perl
- libmodule-find-perl
- binutils
- xz-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.