"needrestart"??
Linux *never*, *never* needs a restart, it's not Windows, I've reached a 2000 years uptime, I installed my first Linux on the Antikythera computer, it was the distro Dephianos made by Ptolomeus Torvaldus (we didn't know penguins then, so we used an Ibis instead as the logo) and never, never neeeded a restart since!!!