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

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "cronic" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install cronic on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall cronic on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: cronic
Architecture: all
Version: 3-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Daniel Lange
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 21
Depends: bash (>= 3.2)
Suggests: cron
Filename: pool/universe/c/cronic/cronic_3-2_all.deb
Size: 6504
MD5sum: e2dd301274b61341b7527e06a9a6c780
SHA1: c98936e9061394bec648c79c3bd25a875df93446
SHA256: d4717d814963cd0b8005ddcf5ad3f9329cdc0e737f1fa44cc8ee27e6a2dab6f4
SHA512: 5489aef53e714e4ee5957a118b299cdd2940f702f78af161e4886aead9b19119935cdae2526aef1b24a8b128a15df6570904646ac9e547b4734e1fa018c615de
Homepage: https://habilis.net/cronic/
Description-en: Bash script for wrapping cron jobs to prevent excess email sending
Cronic is a small shim shell script for wrapping cron jobs so that cron only
sends email when an error has occurred. Cronic defines an error as any
non-trace error output or a non-zero result code.
Description-md5: 97ec26deb2483f76c27820bf8ce242af