How To Install reniced on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reniced on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 reniced using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install reniced
How To Uninstall reniced on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reniced
Remove reniced Configurations and Data
To remove reniced configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reniced package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
