How To Install acpica-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install acpica-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. acpica-tools is ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on Debian 10.

What is acpica-tools

acpica-tools is:

The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an OS-independent reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification (ACPI). ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables.

This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI. The following commands are installed: – iasl: compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI Machine Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes. – acpibin: performs basic operations on binary AML files (e.g., comparison, data extraction) – acpidump: write out the current contents of ACPI tables – acpiexec: simulate AML execution in order to debug method definitions – acpihelp: display help messages describing ASL keywords and op-codes – acpinames: display complete ACPI name space from input AML – acpisrc: manipulate the ACPICA source tree and format source files for specific environments – acpixtract: extract binary ACPI tables from acpidump output (see also the pmtools package)

There are three methods to install acpica-tools 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 acpica-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install acpica-tools

Install acpica-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install acpica-tools

Install acpica-tools 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 acpica-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install acpica-tools

How To Uninstall acpica-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the acpica-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove acpica-tools

Uninstall acpica-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove acpica-tools

Remove acpica-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge acpica-tools

Remove acpica-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge acpica-tools

Dependencies

acpica-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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