How To Install needrestart-session on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart-session
on Debian 10.
What is needrestart-session
needrestart-session is:
needrestart checks which processes need to be restarted after library upgrades. needrestart-session implements a notification of user sessions about their obsolete processes after system upgrades.
There are three methods to install needrestart-session
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-session 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-session
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install needrestart-session
Install needrestart-session Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install needrestart-session
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install needrestart-session
Install needrestart-session 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-session
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install needrestart-session
How To Uninstall needrestart-session on Debian 10
To uninstall only the needrestart-session
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove needrestart-session
Uninstall needrestart-session And Its Dependencies
To uninstall needrestart-session
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove needrestart-session
Remove needrestart-session Configurations and Data
To remove needrestart-session
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge needrestart-session
Remove needrestart-session configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove needrestart-session
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge needrestart-session
Dependencies
needrestart-session have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart-session
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.