How to Install and Uninstall cgroup-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 13,2024

You can also install and uninstall the cgroup-tools on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "cgroup-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install cgroup-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cgroup-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cgroup-tools" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall cgroup-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cgroup-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cgroup-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: cgroup-tools
Source: libcgroup
Version: 2.0.2-2
Installed-Size: 334
Maintainer: Santiago Ruano Rincón
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: cgroup-bin (<< 0.40~rc1-3~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libcgroup2 (>= 2.0.1)
Breaks: cgroup-bin (<< 0.40~rc1-3~)
Description: control and monitor control groups (tools)
Description-md5: 31bbde716d49909064e8fe618de2abd5
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://libcg.sourceforge.net/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libc/libcgroup/cgroup-tools_2.0.2-2_amd64.deb
Size: 76304
MD5sum: 39cdc29833fc3cea3c5cf51591ba5390
SHA256: 76869fb4636b0596303abdc71213d90ee93e0b10051a9603323f991b9985cc92