How To Install powertop on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 powertop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install powertop

How To Uninstall powertop on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove powertop

Remove powertop Configurations and Data

To remove powertop configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• powertop website

Summary

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