How To Install runit-run on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit-run on Ubuntu.
What is runit-run
runit-run is:
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.
This package provides service file to start runit supervision via systemd and an entry in /etc/inittab that respawns the supervision tree for sysv users.
There are three methods to install runit-run on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install runit-run Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install runit-run using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install runit-run
Install runit-run Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install runit-run using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install runit-run
Install runit-run Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install runit-run using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install runit-run
How To Uninstall runit-run on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the runit-run package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove runit-run
Uninstall runit-run And Its Dependencies
To uninstall runit-run and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove runit-run
Remove runit-run Configurations and Data
To remove runit-run configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge runit-run
Remove runit-run configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove runit-run configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge runit-run
Dependencies
runit-run have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install runit-run package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.