How to Install and Uninstall needrestart Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 10,2025

You can also install and uninstall the needrestart on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "needrestart" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install needrestart on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall needrestart on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the needrestart package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: needrestart
Version: 3.6-4+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 292
Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi
Architecture: all
Depends: perl:any, 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, systemd | libimvirt-perl
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_3.6-4+deb12u1_all.deb
Size: 59776
MD5sum: ef33749e1c241ddda719b20c381bf771
SHA256: 38410a99b447b92299291a0b7fa5550639da3eb95b64d63af15e40319962dc46