How To Install newpid on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install newpid
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is newpid
newpid is:
newpid is a simple suid wrapper around clone(CLONE_NEWPID) that launches a command in a new PID namespace. Optionally it can also use CLONE_NEWNET to request a new network namespace.
There are three methods to install newpid
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install newpid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install newpid
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install newpid
Install newpid Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install newpid
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install newpid
Install newpid 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install newpid
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install newpid
How To Uninstall newpid on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the newpid
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove newpid
Uninstall newpid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall newpid
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove newpid
Remove newpid Configurations and Data
To remove newpid
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge newpid
Remove newpid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove newpid
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge newpid
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install newpid
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.