How To Install powerstat on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerstat on Ubuntu.
What is powerstat
powerstat is:
Powerstat measures the power consumption of a mobile PC that has a battery power source. The output is like vmstat but also shows power consumption statistics. At the end of a run, powerstat will calculate the average, standard deviation and min/max of the gathered data.
There are three methods to install powerstat on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install powerstat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install powerstat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install powerstat
Install powerstat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install powerstat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install powerstat
Install powerstat 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 powerstat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install powerstat
How To Uninstall powerstat on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the powerstat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove powerstat
Uninstall powerstat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall powerstat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerstat
Remove powerstat Configurations and Data
To remove powerstat configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge powerstat
Remove powerstat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove powerstat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerstat
Dependencies
powerstat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerstat package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.