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

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "logwatch" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install logwatch on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall logwatch on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                logwatch
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the logwatch package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: logwatch
Architecture: all
Version: 7.5.5-1ubuntu3
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Willi Mann
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2271
Depends: perl:any, default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Recommends: libdate-manip-perl
Suggests: libsys-cpu-perl, libsys-meminfo-perl
Filename: pool/main/l/logwatch/logwatch_7.5.5-1ubuntu3_all.deb
Size: 375800
MD5sum: 2d70e4140d61485ad450ea35c1348c8e
SHA1: 338dd3dcbb6330d863b1975b2bcd6c1fb614d2c9
SHA256: 12f2fd904bb3da23de94548c4806df4fd4e4ef0fe6c41ed645b7e7e88c0c53d0
SHA512: fad19221e9c89fe914a0817c62f398605f7931a7f648ed37529cb86db00558dcdc26dc3dd9e69708f98342b0cfbbf0a21cca745a64555fd3e0e5952bfcabee00
Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch/
Description-en: log analyser with nice output written in Perl
Logwatch is a modular log analyser that runs every night
and mails you the results. It can also be run from command line.
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The output is by service and you can limit the output to one particular
service. The subscripts which are responsible for the output, mostly
convert the raw log lines in structured format.
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Logwatch generally ignores the time component in the output, that means,
you will know that the reported event was logged in the requested range of
time, but you will have to go to the raw log files to get the exact details.
Description-md5: ece539a8a87c5f861d7f0b865e42a03c