How To Install powertop-dbg on Debian 10

Learn how to install powertop-dbg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. powertop-dbg is debugging symbols for powertop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop-dbg on Debian 10.

What is powertop-dbg

powertop-dbg is:

PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode you can use to experiment with various power management settings, for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled those settings.

PowerTOP reports which components in the system are most likely to blame for higher-than-needed power consumption, ranging from software applications to active components in the system. Detailed screens are available for CPU C and P states, device activity, and software activity.

This package contains the debugging symbols for powertop.

There are three methods to install powertop-dbg on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install powertop-dbg Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install powertop-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install powertop-dbg

Install powertop-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install powertop-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install powertop-dbg

Install powertop-dbg 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 powertop-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install powertop-dbg

How To Uninstall powertop-dbg on Debian 10

To uninstall only the powertop-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove powertop-dbg

Uninstall powertop-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall powertop-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove powertop-dbg

Remove powertop-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove powertop-dbg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge powertop-dbg

Remove powertop-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove powertop-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powertop-dbg

Dependencies

powertop-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop-dbg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.