How To Install dptfxtract on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dptfxtract
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dptfxtract
dptfxtract is:
This is a companion tool to Linux Thermal Daemon (thermald). This tool tries to reuse some of the tables used by “Intel ® Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework (Intel® DPTF)” by converting to the thermal_conf.xml format used by thermald.
There are three methods to install dptfxtract
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 dptfxtract Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dptfxtract
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dptfxtract
Install dptfxtract Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dptfxtract
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dptfxtract
Install dptfxtract 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 dptfxtract
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dptfxtract
How To Uninstall dptfxtract on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dptfxtract
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dptfxtract
Uninstall dptfxtract And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dptfxtract
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dptfxtract
Remove dptfxtract Configurations and Data
To remove dptfxtract
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dptfxtract
Remove dptfxtract configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dptfxtract
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dptfxtract
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dptfxtract
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.