How to Install and Uninstall cron Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: July 08,2024

1. Install "cron" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install cron on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall cron on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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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 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: cron
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0pl1-163ubuntu1
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: 210
Provides: cron-daemon
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~), cron-daemon-common
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), sensible-utils, libpam-runtime
Suggests: anacron, logrotate, checksecurity, default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Conflicts: bcron, cronie, systemd-cron
Replaces: bcron, cronie, systemd-cron
Filename: pool/main/c/cron/cron_3.0pl1-163ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 74278
MD5sum: 3b0c14b16bf46fd072746d27f969d5b0
SHA1: eb5ffea440733911255845723b5fc0e8d17debbd
SHA256: 0a2d05cfde9a2406be914440a062e6ce9ecb7dde3c5f6ab3cab756a99ffdcdd9
SHA512: 17750eb52b3a3fac0d2f52c0a4348e129ada2bed71ab677a6af78e47c66c241a0848e41f6ab8c7e895b7de912ad56833c8d1127e06cb47987344d987f02cbfde
Homepage: https://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/
Description: process scheduling daemon
Description-md5: 7384e614068d48b9ac2335cb05added3
Task: standard