How to Install and Uninstall cron Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "cron" package

Please follow the guidance below to install cron on Debian 10 (Buster)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall cron on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cron
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cron package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-134+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 263
Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Architecture: amd64
Provides: cron-daemon
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 2.0.82), debianutils (>= 1.7), sensible-utils, adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: anacron (>= 2.0-1), logrotate, checksecurity
Description: process scheduling daemon
Description-md5: 7384e614068d48b9ac2335cb05added3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/
Tag: admin::automation, implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, role::program,
scope::utility
Section: admin
Priority: important
Filename: pool/main/c/cron/cron_3.0pl1-134+deb10u1_amd64.deb
Size: 99040
MD5sum: 266270ff40f2c93867ee7edbd63caad9
SHA256: cd67ae8de2800717bd09accedcad746f294db9dfe4849e200c93d747ed871286