How to Install and Uninstall cgroup-lite Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "cgroup-lite" package

Learn how to install cgroup-lite on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cgroup-lite
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cgroup-lite" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall cgroup-lite on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cgroup-lite
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cgroup-lite package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: cgroup-lite
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 27
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Architecture: all
Version: 1.11
Depends: lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7), mountall (>> 2.48~)
Conflicts: cgroup-bin (<< 0.38)
Breaks: systemd-shim (<< 9-1bzr4ubuntu1)
Filename: pool/universe/c/cgroup-lite/cgroup-lite_1.11_all.deb
Size: 4192
MD5sum: ae031f768c543714e787651a4d923a47
SHA1: e4ffa23578052ecae8ed9abb146633d866c4a8a4
SHA256: b998aaee23a5879ae5f12fd6b8874070d3613a46117a5c1bcd7d24ec2ef644c3
Description-en: Light-weight package to set up cgroups at system boot
Control groups are a kernel mechanism for tracking and imposing
limits on resource usage on groups of task.
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This package installs an upstart job to set up cgroups when the
system boots, without doing any cgroup management or doing any
classification of tasks into cgroups.
Description-md5: fe014e9d284dece1e33bea560fa15953
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-touch-core, ubuntu-touch