How To Install needrestart on Kali Linux
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.
After updating apt database, We can install needrestart
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install needrestart Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install needrestart
using apt
by running the following command:
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.
After updating apt database, We can install needrestart
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall needrestart on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the needrestart
package we can use the following command:
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:
Remove needrestart Configurations and Data
To remove needrestart
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
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
.