How To Install autosuspend on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install autosuspend on Ubuntu 22.04. autosuspend is daemon to suspend a system in case of inactivity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autosuspend on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is autosuspend

autosuspend is:

A daemon to automatically suspend and wake up a system. Inactivity and wake up times are determined by a set of configurable checks. Autosuspend periodically executes these checks, and if none of them indicated activity, the system is suspended and automatically woken up if necessary.

Autosuspend does not depend on X11 and desktop environments and is therefore specifically intended for (home) servers. Most available checks address these usage scenarios. Yet, also the X11 idle time can be used as a check to support graphical use cases.

There are three methods to install autosuspend on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install autosuspend Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install autosuspend

Install autosuspend Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install autosuspend

Install autosuspend 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 autosuspend using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install autosuspend

How To Uninstall autosuspend on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove autosuspend

Uninstall autosuspend And Its Dependencies

To uninstall autosuspend and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove autosuspend

Remove autosuspend Configurations and Data

To remove autosuspend configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge autosuspend

Remove autosuspend configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autosuspend

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install autosuspend package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.