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

Last updated: May 12,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "needrestart-session" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install needrestart-session 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-session" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall needrestart-session 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-session package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: needrestart-session
Version: 0.3-11
Installed-Size: 125
Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi
Architecture: all
Depends: perl:any, needrestart (>= 2.0), adduser, libnet-dbus-perl, libproc-processtable-perl, libwx-perl, wmctrl, policykit-1
Description: check for processes need to be restarted in user sessions
Description-md5: f777b3f48ac044c25ca752b5fe4b7db3
Homepage: https://github.com/liske/needrestart-session
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/needrestart-session/needrestart-session_0.3-11_all.deb
Size: 15440
MD5sum: fb8da40d845b7e4b4f84550c02bff1bd
SHA256: 804a3878aaaa45621687035e4bc83194e9f670cf6d5cdf9c2022ee5434e935af