How To Install tini on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tini on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tini

Remove tini Configurations and Data

To remove tini configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• tini website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tini package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.