How to Install and Uninstall acct Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "acct" package

Please follow the instructions below to install acct on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall acct on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: acct
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 318
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.5.5-2.1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Filename: pool/main/a/acct/acct_6.5.5-2.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 81166
MD5sum: b09bfc3c40fb07825d9e4a9f18f5e54e
SHA1: 19ae2532a5172f2582eb63d1b67dbcd13d14d228
SHA256: d84d5f0c1d440a718c621073e204f326643d0c2653de06de7a9c2ce42ac0ef18
Description-en: The 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 sysvinit package and not included here.
Description-md5: b24f45ef7d67937aa65ecb8e36a7e5a1
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y