How to Install and Uninstall needrestart Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "needrestart" package

This tutorial shows how to install needrestart on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                needrestart
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "needrestart" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall needrestart on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                needrestart
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the needrestart package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: needrestart
Version: 3.4-5+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 273
Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi
Architecture: all
Depends: perl, dpkg (>= 1.16.0), gettext-base, libintl-perl, libproc-processtable-perl, libsort-naturally-perl, libmodule-scandeps-perl, libterm-readkey-perl, libmodule-find-perl, binutils, xz-utils
Suggests: needrestart-session | libnotify-bin, iucode-tool
Description: check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades
Description-md5: a26ee5dd9ec37fe484bee4f1ce585d87
Homepage: https://github.com/liske/needrestart
Enhances: intel-microcode
Recommends: libpam-systemd | sysvinit-core
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/updates/main/n/needrestart/needrestart_3.4-5+deb10u1_all.deb
Size: 57472
MD5sum: afd5e6e9e3688cbc599251e27fe56f4c
SHA256: a15acdf38a24599ac6d23f1a9536383da65434d9c760de0cc87b283eef845ecb

Package: needrestart
Version: 3.4-5
Installed-Size: 273
Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi
Architecture: all
Depends: perl, dpkg (>= 1.16.0), gettext-base, libintl-perl, libproc-processtable-perl, libsort-naturally-perl, libmodule-scandeps-perl, libterm-readkey-perl, libmodule-find-perl, binutils, xz-utils
Recommends: libpam-systemd | sysvinit-core
Suggests: needrestart-session | libnotify-bin, iucode-tool
Enhances: intel-microcode
Description: check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades
Description-md5: a26ee5dd9ec37fe484bee4f1ce585d87
Homepage: https://github.com/liske/needrestart
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/needrestart/needrestart_3.4-5_all.deb
Size: 57352
MD5sum: 8acede76d4f0a93312fed02ac8129d6e
SHA256: a94a03699ea1b286450a4edf7957040495cbb7f4efdd87059de11c11a5decae8