How To Install cronic on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cronic on Debian 11.
What is cronic
cronic is:
Cronic is a small shim shell script for wrapping cron jobs so that cron only sends email when an error has occurred. Cronic defines an error as any non-trace error output or a non-zero result code.
There are three methods to install cronic on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cronic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cronic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cronic
Install cronic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cronic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cronic
Install cronic Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cronic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cronic
How To Uninstall cronic on Debian 11
To uninstall only the cronic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cronic
Uninstall cronic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cronic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cronic
Remove cronic Configurations and Data
To remove cronic configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cronic
Remove cronic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cronic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cronic
Dependencies
cronic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cronic package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
