How To Install mate-power-manager on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-power-manager on Debian 12.
What is mate-power-manager
mate-power-manager is:
MATE Power Manager is a session daemon for the MATE 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.
The MATE 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 MATE desktop.
There are three methods to install mate-power-manager on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mate-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 mate-power-manager using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-power-manager
Install mate-power-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-power-manager using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-power-manager
Install mate-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-power-manager using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-power-manager
How To Uninstall mate-power-manager on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mate-power-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-power-manager
Uninstall mate-power-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-power-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-power-manager
Remove mate-power-manager Configurations and Data
To remove mate-power-manager configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-power-manager
Remove mate-power-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-power-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-power-manager
Dependencies
mate-power-manager have the following dependencies:
- default-dbus-session-bus
- mate-notification-daemon
- mate-power-manager-common
- policykit-1
- systemd
- upower
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libmate-panel-applet-4-1
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libupower-glib3
- libx11-6
- libxext6
- libxrandr2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-power-manager package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
