How To Install powercap-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powercap-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is powercap-utils
powercap-utils is:
This package contains utilities for accessing the powercap Linux kernel feature through sysfs. Specifically, it provides powercap-info and powercap- set for generic access to powercap control types, and rapl-info and rapl- set for managing Intel RAPL implementations.
There are three methods to install powercap-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install powercap-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install powercap-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install powercap-utils
Install powercap-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install powercap-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install powercap-utils
Install powercap-utils 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install powercap-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install powercap-utils
How To Uninstall powercap-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the powercap-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove powercap-utils
Uninstall powercap-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall powercap-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove powercap-utils
Remove powercap-utils Configurations and Data
To remove powercap-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge powercap-utils
Remove powercap-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove powercap-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powercap-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powercap-utils
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.