How To Install fdpowermon-icons on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdpowermon-icons on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fdpowermon-icons
fdpowermon-icons is:
fdpowermon is a simple perl script that installs an icon in a system tray compatible with the freedesktop.org specification.
By default, it uses an icon set from the ‘oxygen’ icon theme. However, that icon theme is fairly large (several tens of megabytes), which is a waste if the oxygen-icon-theme package is not installed for other reasons. Therefore, this package contains just those icons from the oxygen-icon-theme package that are needed by fdpowermon, and nothing more.
There are three methods to install fdpowermon-icons 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 fdpowermon-icons Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fdpowermon-icons using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fdpowermon-icons
Install fdpowermon-icons Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fdpowermon-icons using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fdpowermon-icons
Install fdpowermon-icons 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 fdpowermon-icons using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fdpowermon-icons
How To Uninstall fdpowermon-icons on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fdpowermon-icons package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fdpowermon-icons
Uninstall fdpowermon-icons And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fdpowermon-icons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fdpowermon-icons
Remove fdpowermon-icons Configurations and Data
To remove fdpowermon-icons configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fdpowermon-icons
Remove fdpowermon-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fdpowermon-icons configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fdpowermon-icons
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdpowermon-icons package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
