How To Install ukui-power-manager on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-power-manager on Ubuntu 18.04. ukui-power-manager is power management tool for the UKUI desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-power-manager on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is ukui-power-manager

ukui-power-manager is:

UKUI Power Manager is a session daemon for the UKUI desktop that takes care of system or desktop events related to power, and triggers actions accordingly. Its philosophy is to completely hide these complex tasks and only show some settings important to the user.

The UKUI power manager displays and manages battery status, power plug events, display brightness, CPU, graphics card and hard disk drive power saving, and can trigger suspend-to-RAM, hibernate or shutdown events, all integrated to other components of the UKUI desktop.

There are three methods to install ukui-power-manager 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 ukui-power-manager Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ukui-power-manager

Install ukui-power-manager Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ukui-power-manager using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ukui-power-manager

Install ukui-power-manager 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 ukui-power-manager using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ukui-power-manager

How To Uninstall ukui-power-manager on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the ukui-power-manager package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ukui-power-manager

Uninstall ukui-power-manager And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ukui-power-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ukui-power-manager

Remove ukui-power-manager Configurations and Data

To remove ukui-power-manager configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ukui-power-manager

Remove ukui-power-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ukui-power-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ukui-power-manager

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-power-manager package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.