How To Install cron-daemon-common on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cron-daemon-common on Debian 12.
What is cron-daemon-common
cron-daemon-common is:
The cron daemon is a background process that runs particular programs at particular times (for example, every minute, day, week, or month), as specified in a crontab. By default, users may also create crontabs of their own so that processes are run on their behalf.
This package provides configuration files which must be there to define scheduled process sets.
There are three methods to install cron-daemon-common on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cron-daemon-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cron-daemon-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cron-daemon-common
Install cron-daemon-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cron-daemon-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cron-daemon-common
Install cron-daemon-common 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 cron-daemon-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cron-daemon-common
How To Uninstall cron-daemon-common on Debian 12
To uninstall only the cron-daemon-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cron-daemon-common
Uninstall cron-daemon-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cron-daemon-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cron-daemon-common
Remove cron-daemon-common Configurations and Data
To remove cron-daemon-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cron-daemon-common
Remove cron-daemon-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cron-daemon-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cron-daemon-common
Dependencies
cron-daemon-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cron-daemon-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
