How To Install cbatticon on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbatticon
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 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 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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbatticon
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.