How To Install fdpowermon on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdpowermon
on Debian 9.
What is fdpowermon
fdpowermon is:
fdpowermon is a simple perl script that installs an icon in a system tray compatible with the freedesktop.org specification.
Every three seconds, fdpowermon calls acpi to find out what the current battery level is. It will set the output of the acpi command as a tooltip text, and will update the used icon as appropriate.
In addition, fdpowermon can optionally call perl subroutines when the power reaches a given level. No such subroutines are provided or enabled by default, however.
There are three methods to install fdpowermon
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 fdpowermon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fdpowermon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fdpowermon
Install fdpowermon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fdpowermon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fdpowermon
Install fdpowermon 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 fdpowermon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fdpowermon
How To Uninstall fdpowermon on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fdpowermon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fdpowermon
Uninstall fdpowermon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fdpowermon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fdpowermon
Remove fdpowermon Configurations and Data
To remove fdpowermon
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fdpowermon
Remove fdpowermon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fdpowermon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fdpowermon
Dependencies
fdpowermon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdpowermon
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.