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

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "systemd" package

This is a short guide on how to install systemd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall systemd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: systemd
Architecture: amd64
Version: 229-4ubuntu21.31
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 18708
Provides: systemd-services
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.6.1), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libselinux1 (>= 1.32)
Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-8), libapparmor1 (>= 2.9.0-3+exp2), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libblkid1 (>= 2.19.1), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libcryptsetup4 (>= 2:1.4.3), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.14), libkmod2 (>= 5~), libmount1 (>= 2.26.2), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libseccomp2 (>= 2.2.3-3~), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9), libsystemd0 (= 229-4ubuntu21.31), util-linux (>= 2.27.1), mount (>= 2.26), adduser, libcap2-bin
Recommends: libpam-systemd, dbus
Suggests: systemd-ui, systemd-container
Conflicts: klogd, systemd-services
Breaks: apparmor (<< 2.9.2-1), ifupdown (<< 0.8.5~), lsb-base (<< 4.1+Debian4), lvm2 (<< 2.02.104-1), systemd-shim (<< 8-2), udev (<< 228-5)
Replaces: systemd-services, udev (<< 228-5)
Filename: pool/main/s/systemd/systemd_229-4ubuntu21.31_amd64.deb
Size: 3610782
MD5sum: 52f932f8c75278cea12f60c2388ccfb6
SHA1: 63fb782c9d0b2d4f9d4d4fce97f02834da967e8c
SHA256: 6a0fa7411efcc802acfc9af7023e27a7b6a0bc7677988cc5efa2c505dbe9e238
SHA512: 1b1a4ced86c70a66e7f72109dbf2024bb05ed2cb84458811daf3fb2d3cf039dcb4500dae02cd9df67988e89c2e1bee1f3da80f92e706e605894903ecddb1e10e
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Description-en: system and service manager
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive
parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting
services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes
using Linux control groups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system
state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate
transactional dependency-based service control logic.
.
systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a
drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
.
Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you
boot with init=/bin/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
Description-md5: daa2c3e0044c2c2f5adc47475a3d6969
Task: minimal, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-core
Supported: 5y

Package: systemd
Architecture: amd64
Version: 229-4ubuntu21.27
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 18692
Provides: systemd-services
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.6.1), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libselinux1 (>= 1.32)
Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-8), libapparmor1 (>= 2.9.0-3+exp2), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libblkid1 (>= 2.19.1), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libcryptsetup4 (>= 2:1.4.3), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.14), libkmod2 (>= 5~), libmount1 (>= 2.26.2), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libseccomp2 (>= 2.2.3-3~), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9), libsystemd0 (= 229-4ubuntu21.27), util-linux (>= 2.27.1), mount (>= 2.26), adduser, libcap2-bin
Recommends: libpam-systemd, dbus
Suggests: systemd-ui, systemd-container
Conflicts: klogd, systemd-services
Breaks: apparmor (<< 2.9.2-1), ifupdown (<< 0.8.5~), lsb-base (<< 4.1+Debian4), lvm2 (<< 2.02.104-1), systemd-shim (<< 8-2), udev (<< 228-5)
Replaces: systemd-services, udev (<< 228-5)
Filename: pool/main/s/systemd/systemd_229-4ubuntu21.27_amd64.deb
Size: 3799228
MD5sum: cfab3bb32a6cb56f6e6d80c0248991c5
SHA1: 73f8f109db6d017dcf4e840e369848f1afccd69f
SHA256: d265c1858748a6b6f5faa7268500ca094dc884fd2ca1c277e3bfd5a704406c65
SHA512: ea407e6a2b568285bf9b8e58affd9ac9925f5bb980a756574b06f36d8c740d9a2333ad40c12028a23424a25ad2960ce802530da586db186eb597ce422c481fdd
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Description-en: system and service manager
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive
parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting
services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes
using Linux control groups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system
state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate
transactional dependency-based service control logic.
.
systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a
drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
.
Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you
boot with init=/bin/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
Description-md5: daa2c3e0044c2c2f5adc47475a3d6969
Task: minimal, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-core
Supported: 5y

Package: systemd
Priority: required
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 18776
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 229-4ubuntu4
Replaces: systemd-services, udev (<< 228-5)
Provides: systemd-services
Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-8), libapparmor1 (>= 2.9.0-3+exp2), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libblkid1 (>= 2.19.1), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libcryptsetup4 (>= 2:1.4.3), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.14), libkmod2 (>= 5~), libmount1 (>= 2.26.2), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9), libsystemd0 (= 229-4ubuntu4), util-linux (>= 2.27.1), mount (>= 2.26), adduser, libcap2-bin
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.6.1), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libselinux1 (>= 1.32)
Recommends: libpam-systemd, dbus
Suggests: systemd-ui, systemd-container
Conflicts: klogd, systemd-services
Breaks: apparmor (<< 2.9.2-1), ifupdown (<< 0.8.5~), lsb-base (<< 4.1+Debian4), lvm2 (<< 2.02.104-1), systemd-shim (<< 8-2), udev (<< 228-5)
Filename: pool/main/s/systemd/systemd_229-4ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Size: 3643306
MD5sum: f059a404e3491d2bd3c008a98242befb
SHA1: 3b77f42f7f6c34bd33cf05c02beecb6ca9c81f63
SHA256: d1f0c30982125386ce2f6f734285b993c59b171029068145b46753e85cefde6c
Description-en: system and service manager
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive
parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting
services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes
using Linux control groups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system
state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate
transactional dependency-based service control logic.
.
systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a
drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
.
Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you
boot with init=/bin/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
Description-md5: daa2c3e0044c2c2f5adc47475a3d6969
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: minimal, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-core