How To Install gnome-power-manager on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-power-manager on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager is:
GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME desktop that takes care of system or desktop events related to power, and triggers actions accordingly. Its philosophy is to completely hide these complex tasks and only show some settings important to the user.
GNOME power manager displays and manages battery status, power plug events, display brightness, CPU, graphics card and hard disk drive power saving, and can trigger suspend-to-RAM, hibernate or shutdown events, all integrated to other components of the GNOME desktop. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-power-manager on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-power-manager Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-power-manager using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-power-manager
Install gnome-power-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-power-manager using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-power-manager
Install gnome-power-manager 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 gnome-power-manager using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-power-manager
How To Uninstall gnome-power-manager on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-power-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-power-manager
Uninstall gnome-power-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-power-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-power-manager
Remove gnome-power-manager Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-power-manager configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-power-manager
Remove gnome-power-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-power-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-power-manager
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-power-manager package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.