How to Install and Uninstall systemctl Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "systemctl" package

Please follow the instructions below to install systemctl on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall systemctl on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                systemctl
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the systemctl package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: systemctl
Architecture: all
Version: 1.4.4181-1.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Source: docker-systemctl-replacement
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Dmitry Smirnov
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 272
Depends: python3:any
Recommends: procps
Suggests: tini | dumb-init
Conflicts: systemd
Filename: pool/universe/d/docker-systemctl-replacement/systemctl_1.4.4181-1.1_all.deb
Size: 76608
MD5sum: 840eb11966613dd38bb15b5ecf59618c
SHA1: 5c53da33481e4b163caab46dbece64e1ad34385a
SHA256: ab061f8b88eac9d0527868928bb806d53c86cd7dee66896080cebf92c7114b48
SHA512: 2ebebd6be8344df6c7ffdd8e196327c19087410c14180210c83f581b7dee3d73d8857a68fa87cc3e9840d8d41b64ac37677474de37ee789f0b43f65166cc174f
Homepage: https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement
Description-en: daemonless "systemctl" command to manage services without systemd
"systemctl" is a replacement command to control system daemons without
systemd. "systemctl" is useful in application containers where systemd is
not available to start/stop services.
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This script can also be run as init of an application container (i.e. the
main "CMD" on PID 1) where it will automatically bring up all enabled
services in the "multi-user.target" and where it will reap all zombies
from background processes in the container. When stopping such a container
it will also bring down all configured services correctly before exit.
Description-md5: 365260d0ce4d4a9f51b3dc0038b375bf