How To Install battery-stats on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install battery-stats on Debian 9.
What is battery-stats
battery-stats is:
This package provides battery-stats-collector, a daemon which will periodically collect statistics about the charge of the batteries present.
It also proves a binary called battery-graph, which can be used to generate qplot graphs about the battery charge/discharge patterns over time
Note: This requires APM or ACPI to be enabled and working in your kernel.
There are three methods to install battery-stats on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install battery-stats Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install battery-stats using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install battery-stats
Install battery-stats Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install battery-stats using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install battery-stats
Install battery-stats 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 battery-stats using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install battery-stats
How To Uninstall battery-stats on Debian 9
To uninstall only the battery-stats package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove battery-stats
Uninstall battery-stats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall battery-stats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove battery-stats
Remove battery-stats Configurations and Data
To remove battery-stats configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge battery-stats
Remove battery-stats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove battery-stats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge battery-stats
Dependencies
battery-stats have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install battery-stats package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.