How To Install needrestart on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Kali Linux. needrestart is check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove needrestart

Remove needrestart Configurations and Data

To remove needrestart configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.