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

Last updated: November 22,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "cron" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install cron on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall cron 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 cron package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-162
Installed-Size: 217
Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: bcron, cronie, systemd-cron
Provides: cron-daemon
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), sensible-utils, libpam-runtime
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~), cron-daemon-common
Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: anacron, logrotate, checksecurity
Conflicts: bcron, cronie, systemd-cron
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_3.0pl1-162_amd64.deb
Size: 73084
MD5sum: b6d92df8eb8949b9fd3cb7f0cc151727
SHA256: c1e12d9c993460e6396107668aa7ba79f8633decebb53aa6c38049584448be3f