How to Install and Uninstall cron Package on Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "cron" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install cron on Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall cron on Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia):


    
        
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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 Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia)

Package: cron
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0pl1-137ubuntu3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 255
Provides: cron-daemon
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), debianutils (>= 1.7), sensible-utils, adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11)
Suggests: anacron (>= 2.0-1), logrotate, checksecurity, default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Filename: pool/main/c/cron/cron_3.0pl1-137ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 73668
MD5sum: 9fe303b823ab09e929d2a7de61d6faf9
SHA1: e4bfdaa572f5a46b88f21085f87e0b2f44db594f
SHA256: 5dde1799e4086cf8833b82855fe755d292c2ed1855364355daff4364ce62beab
SHA512: bcf115c3f1b607d9a5d05e89591bef61330476094bc9ccec86c4ddca823a4f1d2baf674240be6923828d64895d11579b4211b32996f73aa46613449f46ab97b0
Homepage: https://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/
Description: process scheduling daemon
Description-md5: 7384e614068d48b9ac2335cb05added3
Task: standard