How To Install power-calibrate on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install power-calibrate on Kali Linux.

What is power-calibrate

power-calibrate is:

Power-calibrate calibrates the power consumption of a mobile device that has a battery power source or of an modern Intel device has RAPL support. It will attempt to calculate the power usage of 1% of CPU utilisation (and 1 instruction and 1 cpu cycle if perf is available).

There are three methods to install power-calibrate on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install power-calibrate Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install power-calibrate using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install power-calibrate

Install power-calibrate Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install power-calibrate using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install power-calibrate

Install power-calibrate Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install power-calibrate using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install power-calibrate

How To Uninstall power-calibrate on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the power-calibrate package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove power-calibrate

Uninstall power-calibrate And Its Dependencies

To uninstall power-calibrate and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove power-calibrate

Remove power-calibrate Configurations and Data

To remove power-calibrate configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge power-calibrate

Remove power-calibrate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove power-calibrate configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge power-calibrate

Dependencies

power-calibrate have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• power-calibrate website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install power-calibrate package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.