How to Install and Uninstall chrony Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 15,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "chrony" package

Please follow the instructions below to install chrony on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall chrony on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: chrony
Version: 4.3-2+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 638
Maintainer: Vincent Blut
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: time-daemon
Provides: time-daemon
Depends: adduser, iproute2, tzdata, ucf, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libedit2 (>= 2.11-20080614-0), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5), libnettle8, libseccomp2 (>= 2.4.3-1~)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Suggests: dnsutils, networkd-dispatcher
Conflicts: time-daemon
Breaks: network-manager (<< 1.20.0-1~)
Description: Versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol
Description-md5: f0bbbeab28dbc2e9fe201d3d79df8c96
Homepage: https://chrony.tuxfamily.org
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, interface::daemon,
interface::text-mode, network::server, network::service, role::program,
uitoolkit::ncurses, use::configuring, use::monitor, use::timekeeping
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/chrony/chrony_4.3-2+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 288324
MD5sum: aaf04feed4c75f8141bdacdab92b2a43
SHA256: acf7dbd130f2e0dde47c7293a942a6cb8e2d44c0e1b11c97cfcf044b053d5405