How To Install upower on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install upower on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is upower
upower is:
upower provides an interface to enumerate power sources on the system and control system-wide power management. Any application can access the org.freedesktop.UPower service on the system message bus. Some operations (such as suspending the system) are restricted using PolicyKit.
There are three methods to install upower on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install upower Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install upower using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install upower
Install upower Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install upower using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install upower
Install upower 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 upower using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install upower
How To Uninstall upower on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the upower package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove upower
Uninstall upower And Its Dependencies
To uninstall upower and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove upower
Remove upower Configurations and Data
To remove upower configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge upower
Remove upower configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove upower configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge upower
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install upower package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
