How To Install wmbattery on Debian 12

Learn how to install wmbattery on Debian 12 with this tutorial. wmbattery is display laptop battery info, dockable in WindowMaker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wmbattery on Debian 12.

What is wmbattery

wmbattery is:

wmbattery displays the status of your laptop’s battery in a small icon. This includes if it is plugged in, if the battery is charging, how many minutes of battery life remain, and battery status (high - green, low - yellow, or critical - red).

There’s nothing in the program that makes it require WindowMaker, except maybe the look. It can be docked in WindowMaker or AfterStep’s dock.

wmbattery supports multi-battery machines, and can estimate how long it will take the battery to finish charging or discharging.

There are three methods to install wmbattery on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wmbattery Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmbattery

Install wmbattery Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wmbattery

Install wmbattery 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install wmbattery

How To Uninstall wmbattery on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove wmbattery

Uninstall wmbattery And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wmbattery and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmbattery

Remove wmbattery Configurations and Data

To remove wmbattery configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wmbattery

Remove wmbattery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmbattery

Dependencies

wmbattery have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wmbattery package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.