How to Install logwatch software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install logwatch software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

logwatch software package provides log analyser with nice output written in Perl, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install logwatch 

logwatch is installed in your system.

Make ensure the logwatch package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep logwatch *

You will get with logwatch package name, version, architecture and description in a table

logwatch package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Administration Utilities
Package logwatch
Version 7.4.0+svn20130529rev144-1ubunt
Description log analyser with nice output written in Perl
Sub Section Admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove logwatch software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?