How To Install systemd on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemd on Kali Linux.
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=/lib/systemd/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
There are three methods to install systemd 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 systemd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install systemd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systemdInstall systemd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install systemd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systemdInstall systemd 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install systemd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systemdHow To Uninstall systemd on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the systemd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systemdUninstall systemd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systemd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemdRemove systemd Configurations and Data
To remove systemd configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systemdRemove 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 systemdDependencies
systemd have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemd package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.