How To Install systemd on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemd on Debian 10.
What is systemd
systemd is:
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.
systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you boot with init=/bin/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
There are three methods to install systemd on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install systemd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install systemd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systemd
Install systemd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install systemd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systemd
Install systemd 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 systemd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systemd
How To Uninstall systemd on Debian 10
To uninstall only the systemd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systemd
Uninstall systemd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systemd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemd
Remove systemd Configurations and Data
To remove systemd configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systemd
Remove systemd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove systemd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systemd
Dependencies
systemd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemd package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.