How to Install and Uninstall acct Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 26,2024

1. Install "acct" package

This is a short guide on how to install acct on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall acct on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: acct
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.6.4-4build1
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 304
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), lsb-base
Filename: pool/main/a/acct/acct_6.6.4-4build1_amd64.deb
Size: 88652
MD5sum: f9387c1d66f27bc7536f98a0a543ffad
SHA1: 479ed98447c649878488e6ac055b9a3b5209bac9
SHA256: 28b22396d748d42f42f966f8e537aff4412c894cc1ccecd33aa551c09358ca33
SHA512: 12f1114e4c888914377d13d19d5f4f15c3c01d82b05c0ab8ce3ba850795c6190bff608673eeb141bbacd36b7c6241453eca4394c1b1efed63216cbf8d63d9f5d
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