How To Install cpufrequtils on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpufrequtils
on Debian 10.
What is cpufrequtils
cpufrequtils is:
This package contains two utilities for inspecting and setting the CPU frequency through both the sysfs and procfs CPUFreq kernel interfaces.
By default, it also enables CPUFreq at boot time if the correct CPU driver is found.
There are three methods to install cpufrequtils
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 cpufrequtils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cpufrequtils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cpufrequtils
Install cpufrequtils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cpufrequtils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cpufrequtils
Install cpufrequtils 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 cpufrequtils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cpufrequtils
How To Uninstall cpufrequtils on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cpufrequtils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cpufrequtils
Uninstall cpufrequtils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cpufrequtils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpufrequtils
Remove cpufrequtils Configurations and Data
To remove cpufrequtils
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cpufrequtils
Remove cpufrequtils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cpufrequtils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpufrequtils
Dependencies
cpufrequtils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpufrequtils
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.