How To Install runit on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is runit
runit is:
runit is a collection of tools to provide system-wide service supervision and to manage services. Contrary to sysv init, it not only cares about starting and stopping services, but also supervises the service daemons while they are running. Amongst other things, it provides a reliable interface to send signals to service daemons without the need for pid-files, and a log facility with automatic log file rotation and disk space limits.
runit service supervision can run under sysv init, systemd or replace the init system completely. Complete init replacement is provided by ‘runit-init’ package. Users that want to take advantage of runit supervision under systemd or sysv init can directly install the ‘runit-run’ package.
There are three methods to install runit
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install runit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install runit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install runit
Install runit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install runit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install runit
Install runit 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 runit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install runit
How To Uninstall runit on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the runit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove runit
Uninstall runit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall runit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove runit
Remove runit Configurations and Data
To remove runit
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge runit
Remove runit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove runit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge runit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.