How To Install powermanagement-interface on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powermanagement-interface on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is powermanagement-interface
powermanagement-interface is:
Provides an abstracted layer above the platform specific power management interfaces, with a consistent API so that higher level tools can interact with those interfaces.
There are three methods to install powermanagement-interface on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install powermanagement-interface Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install powermanagement-interface using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install powermanagement-interface
Install powermanagement-interface Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install powermanagement-interface using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install powermanagement-interface
Install powermanagement-interface 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 powermanagement-interface using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install powermanagement-interface
How To Uninstall powermanagement-interface on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the powermanagement-interface package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove powermanagement-interface
Uninstall powermanagement-interface And Its Dependencies
To uninstall powermanagement-interface and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove powermanagement-interface
Remove powermanagement-interface Configurations and Data
To remove powermanagement-interface configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge powermanagement-interface
Remove powermanagement-interface configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove powermanagement-interface configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powermanagement-interface
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powermanagement-interface package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
