No crontab? (crontab: command not found)

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I just went to add a cron job to my umbrel node and when I try crontab -e, I get -bash: crontab: command not found – but it appears the system has anacron (/etc/cron.d/). Is cronie not included? I see references to people saying to just use crontab -e to add jobs on an umbrel and I want to make sure I’m not doubling up on another cron system by installing cronie…

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sudo crontab -e is the same, and sudo apt-get install cronie fails to locate the package. What’s the proper way to cron and/or to install on an umbrel home?

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In a new umbrel installation I find that crontab exists.
Try ls -alh /usr/bin/crontab and which crontab

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umbrel@umbrel:~$ which crontab
umbrel@umbrel:~$ ls -alh /usr/bin/crontab
ls: cannot access ‘/usr/bin/crontab’: No such file or directory

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Hey @antic apologies for the delayed response. I believe you’re looking for the following instead since it’s Debian based:
sudo apt-get install cron

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Thanks. I just wanted to make sure that installing cron wasn’t going to mess anything up, but since it looks like there’s no cron running at the moment…

I’m guessing that installing cron is going to activate the running of the contents in /etc/cron.d/e2scrub_all, yes? Odd that this wasn’t installed already given that this is a 2 month old Umbrel Home–very recent factory build.