How to Install and Uninstall powercap-utils Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 29,2024

You can also install and uninstall the powercap-utils on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "powercap-utils" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install powercap-utils on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                powercap-utils
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "powercap-utils" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall powercap-utils on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the powercap-utils package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: powercap-utils
Source: powercap
Version: 0.6.0-1
Installed-Size: 113
Maintainer: Connor Imes
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libpowercap0 (= 0.6.0-1)
Description: Utilities for accessing the powercap Linux kernel feature
Description-md5: 7b7c71eb50b455ca4ec74ec12ea4adc6
Homepage: https://github.com/powercap/powercap
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/powercap/powercap-utils_0.6.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 24340
MD5sum: 2cbf759c55ceb7295efdd1fe19fed5b3
SHA256: 62690fcaae0b8d6a5258f79fbb8f8ddac5dca253df55b94ff782918bb87a8609