How to Install and Uninstall runit Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "runit" package

Learn how to install runit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall runit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                runit
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the runit package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: runit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 491
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Gerrit Pape
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.1.2-3ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Recommends: fgetty
Suggests: socklog-run
Filename: pool/universe/r/runit/runit_2.1.2-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 102338
MD5sum: 092457687544b7f5fb8054bc3c90a275
SHA1: 31af4f6d1ac303b1ef1c452ef243125f342286b7
SHA256: bc446085bd781c30c8d1eeffd125c21bdfb1a9f44e057a3000d41fd2d4f5cebe
Description-en: system-wide service supervision
runit is a collection of tools to provide system-wide service supervision
and to manage services. Contrary to sysv init, it not only cares about
starting and stopping services, but also supervises the service daemons
while they are running. Amongst other things, it provides a reliable
interface to send signals to service daemons without the need for pid-files,
and a log facility with automatic log file rotation and disk space limits.
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runit service supervision can run under sysv init or replace the init
system completely. Complete init replacement requires some manual
configuration described in the supplied documentation.
Description-md5: 8f96c6c946caaba2df55138b536c0dca
Homepage: http://smarden.org/runit/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu