How to Install needrestart software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install needrestart software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

needrestart software package provides check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install needrestart 

needrestart is installed in your system.

Make ensure the needrestart package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep needrestart *

You will get with needrestart package name, version, architecture and description in a table

needrestart package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Administration Utilities
Package needrestart
Version 0.5-1
Description check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades
Sub Section Admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove needrestart software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?