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

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "cron" package

This tutorial shows how to install cron on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall cron on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: cron
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0pl1-137ubuntu2
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: 254
Provides: cron-daemon
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), 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_3.0pl1-137ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 73712
MD5sum: fc95f4852a27057809c92f9d70a706fe
SHA1: 6ebb3323e9c3d794c5ed4727cafc073ab96b8f59
SHA256: b32a9ba5867a89654b663ddf047497f7b283b72911ddc95759d2b975f1b49b9b
SHA512: 9da7dd7ad2285097cc621393742d395f2d8481026b1836222f04ef2045b7185c29756269334468cdae32dd99f0a85c0265392f2fb72579c276581f54bf797c6b
Homepage: https://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/
Description-en: process scheduling daemon
The cron daemon is a background process that runs particular programs at
particular times (for example, every minute, day, week, or month), as
specified in a crontab. By default, users may also create crontabs of
their own so that processes are run on their behalf.
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Output from the commands is usually mailed to the system administrator
(or to the user in question); you should probably install a mail system
as well so that you can receive these messages.
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This cron package does not provide any system maintenance tasks. Basic
periodic maintenance tasks are provided by other packages, such
as checksecurity.
Description-md5: 7384e614068d48b9ac2335cb05added3
Task: standard