How to Install and Uninstall popularity-contest Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "popularity-contest" package

This tutorial shows how to install popularity-contest on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: popularity-contest
Priority: standard
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 115
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Popularity Contest Developers
Architecture: all
Version: 1.64ubuntu2
Provides: popcon
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>= 1.10)
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 1.5.34) | cdebconf (>= 0.106)
Recommends: cron | cron-daemon
Suggests: anacron
Filename: pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.64ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 32974
MD5sum: 8fe15f7822f7af7f9bd632a48414946e
SHA1: 4dfd4655b57f1e5950ab18fa018c11cfa767783b
SHA256: 07266b781aedf37d6c1f2bb211586a948646466d7fe07e410e7cca7469473603
Description-en: Vote for your favourite packages automatically
The popularity-contest package sets up a cron job that will
periodically anonymously submit to the Ubuntu developers
statistics about the most used Ubuntu packages on this system.
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This information helps Ubuntu make decisions such as which packages
should go on the first CD. It also lets Ubuntu improve future versions
of the distribution so that the most popular packages are the ones which
are installed automatically for new users.
Description-md5: eb9d38f93e5a2c4d39973b8d4a8110dc
Homepage: http://popcon.debian.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: standard