How to Install and Uninstall rtkit Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "rtkit" package

Please follow the steps below to install rtkit on Kali Linux


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall rtkit on Kali Linux:


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

Package: rtkit
Version: 0.13-5
Installed-Size: 141
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: adduser, default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus, polkitd | policykit-1, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libsystemd0
Size: 33344
SHA256: 655b76a64a38c6333783dc4673fb85042749a3b0825e28aa6e43181b86deb6e4
SHA1: f70357ba8df1501f4e48ac5e80915810454dd713
MD5sum: 76db491a2bceff1f6f7aade1e7e31139
Description: Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon
RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the
scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR
(i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to
be used as a secure mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to
be used by normal user processes.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/heftig/rtkit
Tag: implemented-in::c, role::program
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/rtkit/rtkit_0.13-5_amd64.deb