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

Last updated: May 19,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "logrotate" package

This tutorial shows how to install logrotate on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall logrotate on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: logrotate
Version: 3.21.0-1
Installed-Size: 160
Maintainer: Christian Göttsche
Architecture: amd64
Depends: cron | anacron | cron-daemon | systemd-sysv, libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.34), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~)
Suggests: bsd-mailx | mailx
Description: Log rotation utility
Description-md5: bb73169bb75b2b8a2fda1453d214416d
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate
Tag: admin::automation, admin::logging, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility,
use::compressing, works-with::logfile
Section: admin
Priority: important
Filename: pool/main/l/logrotate/logrotate_3.21.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 62108
MD5sum: ca437fbf6cd7213667aefcbd28bc2b6a
SHA256: 4e6acd31f55af85b2f12bd61a636c84e19fc1d0f419540b71bbe8aba6985aa32