How To Install powerstat on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerstat on Kali Linux.

What is powerstat

powerstat is:

Powerstat measures the power consumption of a mobile PC that has a battery power source. The output is like vmstat but also shows power consumption statistics. At the end of a run, powerstat will calculate the average, standard deviation and min/max of the gathered data.

There are three methods to install powerstat 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 powerstat Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install powerstat

Install powerstat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install powerstat using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install powerstat

Install powerstat 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 powerstat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install powerstat

How To Uninstall powerstat on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the powerstat package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove powerstat

Uninstall powerstat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerstat

Remove powerstat Configurations and Data

To remove powerstat configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge powerstat

Remove powerstat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerstat

Dependencies

powerstat have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• powerstat website

Summary

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