How to Install and Uninstall needrestart Package on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "needrestart" package

This is a short guide on how to install needrestart on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall needrestart on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Package: needrestart
Architecture: all
Version: 3.6-7
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 496
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
Filename: pool/main/n/needrestart/needrestart_3.6-7_all.deb
Size: 45644
MD5sum: 377b616ac89b19d694105fd7bdb58f05
SHA1: 36cb85c13ca90ad926e872b344e76ceec94af3f5
SHA256: 49493bfd81a5e5d125c54769fcd10efbcc2cdbe53e33c2973aad0b9b4782d334
SHA512: d17afcaf6f79e012103846ae2affb056489e271cb9f216dc7f579a969f47cb6f3145173e9e17cc89dcc714d447e6697490deb10247d942e74b2054e11dfa8dde
Homepage: https://github.com/liske/needrestart
Description: check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades
Description-md5: a26ee5dd9ec37fe484bee4f1ce585d87
Task: cloud-image, cloud-image, server-minimal, server, ubuntu-server-raspi