How To Install supervisor on Debian 12

Learn how to install supervisor on Debian 12 with this tutorial. supervisor is System for controlling process state

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install supervisor on Debian 12.

What is supervisor

supervisor is:

Supervisor is a system for controlling and maintaining process state, similar to what init does, but not intended as an init replacement.

It will manage individual processes or groups of processes that need to be started and stopped in order, and it is possible to control individual process state via an rpc mechanism, thus allowing ordinary users to restart processes.

There are three methods to install supervisor on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install supervisor Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install supervisor

Install supervisor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install supervisor

Install supervisor 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 supervisor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install supervisor

How To Uninstall supervisor on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove supervisor

Uninstall supervisor And Its Dependencies

To uninstall supervisor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove supervisor

Remove supervisor Configurations and Data

To remove supervisor configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge supervisor

Remove supervisor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge supervisor

Dependencies

supervisor have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install supervisor package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.