How To Install reniced on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is reniced

reniced is:

reniced takes a list of regular expressions, looks for processes matching them and renices the processes to given values.

Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because these files are conffiles) you can just run reniced once a day.

There are three methods to install reniced 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 reniced Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install reniced using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install reniced

Install reniced Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install reniced using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install reniced

Install reniced 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 reniced using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reniced

How To Uninstall reniced on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove reniced

Uninstall reniced And Its Dependencies

To uninstall reniced and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reniced

Remove reniced Configurations and Data

To remove reniced configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge reniced

Remove reniced configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove reniced configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reniced

Dependencies

reniced have the following dependencies:

• libbsd-resource-perl
• perl

References

• reniced website

Summary

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