How to Install and Uninstall conmon Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 10,2025

1. Install "conmon" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install conmon on Kali Linux


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall conmon on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                conmon
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the conmon package on Kali Linux

Package: conmon
Version: 2.1.10+ds1-1
Installed-Size: 173
Maintainer: Podman Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.77.0), libsystemd0
Size: 38980
SHA256: c085fd5989354dcd9542aafb01e1ad43da4e6b04ea8380725a6568ec2889def6
SHA1: ad52a1a9c2741b7145011c5fdca1a44cf06759e8
MD5sum: 10a2d72dfff6047fd2f09621d243747d
Description: OCI container runtime monitor
Conmon is a monitoring program and communication tool between a container
manager (like podman or CRI-O) and an OCI runtime (like runc or crun) for a
single container.
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Upon being launched, it double-forks to daemonize and detach from the parent
that launched it. It then launches the runtime as its child. This allows
managing processes to die in the foreground, but still be able to watch over
and connect to the child process (the container).
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While the container runs, conmon does two things:
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- Provides a socket for attaching to the container, holding open the
container's standard streams and forwarding them over the socket.
- Writes the contents of the container's streams to a log file (or to the
systemd journal) so they can be read after the container's death.
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Finally, upon the containers death, conmon will record its exit time and code
to be read by the managing programs.
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Written in C and designed to have a low memory footprint, conmon is intended to
be run by a container managing library. Essentially, conmon is the smallest
daemon a container can have.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/containers/conmon
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/conmon/conmon_2.1.10+ds1-1_amd64.deb