How To Install needrestart on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Rocky Linux 8. needrestart is Restart daemons after library updates

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install needrestart.

Install needrestart on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install needrestart

Install needrestart on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install needrestart

How To Uninstall needrestart on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove needrestart

needrestart Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/default/intel-microcode
/etc/dnf/plugins/needrestart.conf
/etc/needrestart
/etc/needrestart/conf.d
/etc/needrestart/conf.d/README.needrestart
/etc/needrestart/hook.d
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/10-dpkg
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/90-none
/etc/needrestart/iucode.sh
/etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf
/etc/needrestart/notify.conf
/etc/needrestart/notify.d
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/200-write
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/400-notify-send
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/600-mail
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/README.needrestart
/etc/needrestart/restart.d
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/README.needrestart
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/auditd.service
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/dbus.service
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/systemd-manager
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/sysv-init
/usr/lib/needrestart
/usr/lib/needrestart/iucode-scan-versions
/usr/lib/needrestart/notify.d.sh
/usr/lib/needrestart/vmlinuz-get-version
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/needrestart.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/needrestart.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/needrestart.py
/usr/sbin/needrestart
/usr/share/doc/needrestart
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.Cont.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.Interp.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.batch.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.nagios.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.uCode.md
/usr/share/licenses/needrestart
/usr/share/licenses/needrestart/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart-notify.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart-notify.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart-notify.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/needrestart.1.gz
/usr/share/needrestart
/usr/share/needrestart/needrestart.templates
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT/LXC.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT/docker.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT/machined.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Java.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Perl.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Python.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Ruby.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel/Linux.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel/kFreeBSD.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Strings.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI/Debconf.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI/stdio.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Utils.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode/AMD.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode/Intel.pm
/usr/share/polkit-1
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/net.fiasko-nw.needrestart.policy

References

needrestart website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.