How To Install thermald on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is thermald
thermald is:
Thermal Daemon is a Linux daemon for monitoring and controlling platform temperatures. Once the system temperature reaches a certain threshold, the Linux daemon activates various cooling methods to try to cool the system.
There are three methods to install thermald 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 thermald Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install thermald using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thermald
Install thermald Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thermald using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thermald
Install thermald 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 thermald using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thermald
How To Uninstall thermald on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the thermald package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thermald
Uninstall thermald And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thermald and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thermald
Remove thermald Configurations and Data
To remove thermald configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thermald
Remove thermald configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thermald configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thermald
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
