How To Install power-profiles-daemon on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install power-profiles-daemon on Debian 12.
What is power-profiles-daemon
power-profiles-daemon is:
power-profiles-daemon offers to modify system behaviour based upon user-selected power profiles. There are 3 different power profiles, a “balanced” default mode, a “power-saver” mode, as well as a “performance” mode. The first 2 of those are available on every system. The “performance” mode is only available on select systems and is implemented by different “drivers” based on the system or systems it targets.
In addition to those 2 or 3 modes (depending on the system), “actions” can be hooked up to change the behaviour of a particular device. For example, this can be used to disable the fast-charging for some USB devices when in power-saver mode.
Note that power-profiles-daemon does not save the currently active profile across system restarts and will always start with the “balanced” profile selected.
There are three methods to install power-profiles-daemon 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 power-profiles-daemon 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-profiles-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install power-profiles-daemon
Install power-profiles-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install power-profiles-daemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install power-profiles-daemon
Install power-profiles-daemon 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 power-profiles-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install power-profiles-daemon
How To Uninstall power-profiles-daemon on Debian 12
To uninstall only the power-profiles-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove power-profiles-daemon
Uninstall power-profiles-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall power-profiles-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove power-profiles-daemon
Remove power-profiles-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove power-profiles-daemon configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge power-profiles-daemon
Remove power-profiles-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove power-profiles-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge power-profiles-daemon
Dependencies
power-profiles-daemon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install power-profiles-daemon package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
