How To Install upower on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install upower on Kali Linux. upower is abstraction for power management

Introduction

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

What is upower

upower is:

upower provides an interface to enumerate power sources on the system and control system-wide power management. Any application can access the org.freedesktop.UPower service on the system message bus. Some operations (such as suspending the system) are restricted using PolicyKit.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install upower

Install upower Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install upower

Install upower 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 upower using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install upower

How To Uninstall upower on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove upower

Uninstall upower And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove upower

Remove upower Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge upower

Remove upower configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge upower

Dependencies

upower have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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