How To Install thermald on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is thermald
thermald is:
Thermal Daemon is a Linux daemon for monitoring and controlling platform temperatures. Once the system temperature reaches a certain threshold, the Linux daemon activates various cooling methods to try to cool the system. Task: ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: thermald Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 602 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.1-1ubuntu0.3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) Conffiles: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.thermald.conf e18f949bffe6e39d0362377908d44188 /etc/thermald/thermal-cpu-cdev-order.xml 6bbb6d648ba2c70b9635e843818beebb Description-en: Thermal monitoring and controlling daemon Thermal Daemon is a Linux daemon for monitoring and controlling platform temperatures. Once the system temperature reaches a certain threshold, the Linux daemon activates various cooling methods to try to cool the system. Homepage: https://github.com/01org/thermal_daemon Original-Maintainer: Colin King [email protected]
Package: thermald Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.1-1build1 Priority: optional Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Colin King [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 606 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libstdc++6 (>= 9), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) Filename: pool/main/t/thermald/thermald_1.9.1-1build1_amd64.deb Size: 196948 MD5sum: cb1209777bf8341517cf07b29e67c3bd SHA1: bc483408400166e814e03c9c94e451e7033fac3b SHA256: 1189bc835064eff79a261aa0fe952c8ff5d0b85e37f3949e538d95cb98468797 Homepage: https://github.com/01org/thermal_daemon Description-en: Thermal monitoring and controlling daemon Thermal Daemon is a Linux daemon for monitoring and controlling platform temperatures. Once the system temperature reaches a certain threshold, the Linux daemon activates various cooling methods to try to cool the system. Task: ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install thermald on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install thermald Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install thermald using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thermald
Install thermald Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thermald using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thermald
Install thermald 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 thermald using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thermald
How To Uninstall thermald on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the thermald package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thermald
Uninstall thermald And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thermald and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thermald
Remove thermald Configurations and Data
To remove thermald configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thermald
Remove thermald configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thermald configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thermald
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
