How To Install wmacpi on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmacpi
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is wmacpi
wmacpi is:
This is a battery monitor that uses ACPI to query the battery status. This version should work with all recent kernels (vanilla > 2.4.21), both 2.4.x and 2.6.x.
There are three methods to install wmacpi
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wmacpi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wmacpi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wmacpi
Install wmacpi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wmacpi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wmacpi
Install wmacpi 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 wmacpi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wmacpi
How To Uninstall wmacpi on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the wmacpi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wmacpi
Uninstall wmacpi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wmacpi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmacpi
Remove wmacpi Configurations and Data
To remove wmacpi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wmacpi
Remove wmacpi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wmacpi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmacpi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmacpi
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.