How To Install powertop on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop on Debian 9.
What is powertop
powertop is:
PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode you can use to experiment with various power management settings, for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled those settings.
PowerTOP reports which components in the system are most likely to blame for higher-than-needed power consumption, ranging from software applications to active components in the system. Detailed screens are available for CPU C and P states, device activity, and software activity.
There are three methods to install powertop on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install powertop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install powertop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install powertop
Install powertop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install powertop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install powertop
Install powertop 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 powertop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install powertop
How To Uninstall powertop on Debian 9
To uninstall only the powertop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove powertop
Uninstall powertop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall powertop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove powertop
Remove powertop Configurations and Data
To remove powertop configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge powertop
Remove powertop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove powertop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powertop
Dependencies
powertop have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.