How To Install cbatticon on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbatticon on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is cbatticon
cbatticon is:
Utility that displays battery information as battery status, remaining percentage, remaining time, using an icon in the system tray.
Based on code from xbattbar-acpi, cbatticon sits in your system tray, reporting on battery events, like plug-in, critical, remaining, etc.
A regular user can (re)define custom system’s behaviour, like performing graceful shutdown on critical status, by user-defined thresholds and commands on low power/critical.
There are three methods to install cbatticon 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 cbatticon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cbatticon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cbatticon
Install cbatticon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cbatticon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cbatticon
Install cbatticon 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 cbatticon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cbatticon
How To Uninstall cbatticon on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the cbatticon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cbatticon
Uninstall cbatticon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cbatticon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cbatticon
Remove cbatticon Configurations and Data
To remove cbatticon configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cbatticon
Remove cbatticon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cbatticon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cbatticon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbatticon package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
