How to Install and Uninstall acct Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: April 18,2024

1. Install "acct" package

Please follow the guidance below to install acct on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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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 instructions below to uninstall acct on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: acct
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.6.4-4
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 340
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), lsb-base
Filename: pool/main/a/acct/acct_6.6.4-4_amd64.deb
Size: 87260
MD5sum: 152db69af5929ff5073273530f1eff21
SHA1: 314b51ad5d80734cff8e08041a66d1c703871157
SHA256: bc88045ab9dfa5536f0e55d42dee465ecd4691904bbf12d967f69ec2608c67fb
SHA512: 6ffda254716a93ffabadfef961ebab306d66ce7d8444bfaab19e2c96bc867ad2b0bece6ae527caec91b2c5cbd2c53b6ae952965355f0623825c7f3cdaf44f72d
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