How to Install and Uninstall popularity-contest Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "popularity-contest" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install popularity-contest on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                popularity-contest
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "popularity-contest" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall popularity-contest on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: popularity-contest
Architecture: all
Version: 1.71ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Popularity Contest Developers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 191
Provides: popcon
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 1.5.34) | cdebconf (>= 0.106)
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>= 1.10)
Recommends: gpg, cron | cron-daemon, default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: anacron, tor, torsocks
Filename: pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.71ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 53120
MD5sum: bddad036dde3fb2612bbdac458b7344d
SHA1: a8f2c5fb83d67419f545e7df7f3d7ef28be8c786
SHA256: 6717ffc0d28fd41e6fd28e64b5b22e89ea0dc7011cc60e003c020b6eb41dbc84
SHA512: 6c1a74acacf3d8af7695f76e1d88df18b42a74fe98681b59b7becb327c1cb2cec11e17f285a07f6ae0976a63620abf92ab7928740f5229d06a3cf48cedf16091
Homepage: https://popcon.debian.org/
Description-en: Vote for your favourite packages automatically
Ubuntu no longer collects popularity-contest statistics. This
package is being kept for compatibility reasons.
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The popularity-contest package sets up a cron job that will
periodically anonymously submit to the Debian developers
statistics about the most used Debian packages on this system.
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This information helps Debian make decisions such as which packages
should go on the first CD. It also lets Debian improve future versions
of the distribution so that the most popular packages are the ones which
are installed automatically for new users.
Description-md5: f80d56e7a318049be965e4045e2ac560