How to Install and Uninstall acct Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "acct" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install acct on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall acct on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                acct
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the acct package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: acct
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.6.4-3
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 336
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), lsb-base
Filename: pool/main/a/acct/acct_6.6.4-3_amd64.deb
Size: 86980
MD5sum: cb6fba482a6c2faf3a7641d6a4c0a1ee
SHA1: a7eec5b540ffe84b600ab4ede6951471e6a3ade2
SHA256: c4312e3ce56d456103d45e431b0717b3635f497eb8801585102a29c23499d92a
SHA512: 362ff801beb4da972cb78fba815e5e302a33c3182e965a0f828788976b6608a4d94357cd1f36ae2340c93d114cab96171fd91ed223b87708154abc05ea78f3bb
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/acct/
Description-en: GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting
GNU Accounting Utilities is a set of utilities which reports and summarizes
data about user connect times and process execution statistics.
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"Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect
time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands
executed on the system.
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The 'last' command is provided by the util-linux package and not included here.
Description-md5: 2411ebcaa9bca02b21c19f927d3e1bda