How To Install tini on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tini on Debian 10.
What is tini
tini is:
Tini is the simplest init you could think of.
All Tini does is spawn a single child (Tini is meant to be run in a container), and wait for it to exit all the while reaping zombies and performing signal forwarding.
There are three methods to install tini 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 tini Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tini using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tini
Install tini Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tini using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tini
Install tini 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 tini using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tini
How To Uninstall tini on Debian 10
To uninstall only the tini package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tini
Uninstall tini And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tini and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tini
Remove tini Configurations and Data
To remove tini configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tini
Remove tini configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tini configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tini
Dependencies
tini have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tini package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.