How to Install and Uninstall needrestart Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "needrestart" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install needrestart on Kali Linux


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall needrestart on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 Kali Linux

Package: needrestart
Version: 3.6-7
Installed-Size: 291
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, xz-utils
Recommends: libpam-systemd | sysvinit-core, systemd | libimvirt-perl
Suggests: needrestart-session | libnotify-bin, iucode-tool
Enhances: intel-microcode
Size: 59668
SHA256: 401e88e00b7318f45e321a0925ba9d65ff2fc0e969b44bb4f7988ad86d1069c7
SHA1: cb84ef246af9f5f0c68715d9f8d2d90beb20e9fe
MD5sum: a587bf570cbbcf0afd9b6df974fa1314
Description: check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades
needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades.
It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.
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Features:
- supports (but does not require) systemd
- binary blacklisting (i.e. display managers)
- tries to detect required restarts of interpreter based daemons
(supports Java, Perl, Python, Ruby)
- tries to detect required restarts of containers (docker, LXC)
- tries to detect pending kernel upgrades
- tries to detect pending microcode upgrades for Intel CPUs
- could be used as nagios check_command
- fully integrated into apt/dpkg using hooks
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/liske/needrestart
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/needrestart/needrestart_3.6-7_all.deb