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Originally Posted by markr
"sudo apt-get install cron" will install cron just fine if you have your apt sources.list set up.
From there you can use the cron gui you mentioned, or run "crontab -e" at the command line to edit your personal cron file. Keep in mind that that will open vi as a file editor which might be a bit confusing if you haven't used it before. (as a very quick intro, hit "i" to start editing, then "esc" when you are done and :wq to save the file and quit. :q! will save and ditch your changes). When you quit it will tell, you something about "installing new crontab" and you should be good to go.
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I thought I had tried this very simple step a while ago and it didn't work for some reason.
I tried again and cron installed with "sudo apt-get install cron" fine.
I think I originally may have tried "sudo apt-get install crontab" and didn't realize that there was a difference.
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