How to Install and Uninstall earlyoom Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 16,2025

1. Install "earlyoom" package

Learn how to install earlyoom on Kali Linux


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

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


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

Package: earlyoom
Version: 1.7-2
Installed-Size: 81
Maintainer: Yangfl
Architecture: amd64
Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 3.05-4~) | lsb-base, libc6 (>= 2.34)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Size: 28864
SHA256: 8a25bf76669761400d770d22453f9744b998b0952489dc448dffa906d3b8fa84
SHA1: 4e951c308ca68c015663a2b81f6084e7b722e677
MD5sum: 538e685ec76d2fb0dfdf815ef39fc722
Description: Early OOM Daemon
Earlyoom is an userspace OOM-killer which can avoid the system to get into
unresponsive state caused by swapping, which is most likely to occur when a
large swap is present and memory is tight. It checks the amount of available
memory and swap periodically, and when both are below a preconfigured value,
it kills the largest process.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/earlyoom/earlyoom_1.7-2_amd64.deb