How To Install runit on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install runit on Kali Linux.

What is runit

runit 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.

runit service supervision can run under sysv init, systemd or replace the init system completely. Complete init replacement is provided by ‘runit-init’ package. Users that want to take advantage of runit supervision under systemd or sysv init can directly install the ‘runit-run’ package.

There are three methods to install runit on Kali Linux. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install runit

Install runit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install runit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install runit

Install runit Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install runit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install runit

How To Uninstall runit on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the runit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove runit

Uninstall runit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall runit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove runit

Remove runit Configurations and Data

To remove runit configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge runit

Remove runit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove runit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge runit

Dependencies

runit have the following dependencies:

• sysuser-helper
• libc6

References

• runit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install runit package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.