How To Install fatrace on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fatrace on Debian 10.
What is fatrace
fatrace is:
fatrace reports file access events from all running processes. Its main purpose is to find processes which keep waking up the disk unnecessarily and thus prevent some power saving.
This package also contains a “power-usage-report” tool, which uses fatrace and powertop to build a textual report from one minute of measuring power usage and file accesses. This does not take any arguments or requires any interactivity, so is very simple to use and serves as a starting point for bug reports or optimizing a particular installation.
There are three methods to install fatrace 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 fatrace Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fatrace using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fatrace
Install fatrace Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fatrace using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fatrace
Install fatrace 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 fatrace using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fatrace
How To Uninstall fatrace on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fatrace package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fatrace
Uninstall fatrace And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fatrace and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fatrace
Remove fatrace Configurations and Data
To remove fatrace configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fatrace
Remove fatrace configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fatrace configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fatrace
Dependencies
fatrace have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fatrace package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.