How to Install and Uninstall powercap-utils Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 28,2025

1. Install "powercap-utils" package

Please follow the guidance below to install powercap-utils on Kali Linux


    
        
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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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall powercap-utils on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                powercap-utils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the powercap-utils package on Kali Linux

Package: powercap-utils
Source: powercap (0.6.0-1)
Version: 0.6.0-1+b1
Installed-Size: 110
Maintainer: Connor Imes
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libpowercap0 (= 0.6.0-1+b1)
Size: 24360
SHA256: 9d1047dc4ba57832f7f60872a80e1e8adef670256859adf94c7ddaededa3267f
SHA1: d8fe9183f4828b1af3a09daedc1a38163ddcac88
MD5sum: ec72b0eb5e7be4fd88af2a4d43a65a54
Description: Utilities for accessing the powercap Linux kernel feature
This package contains utilities for accessing the powercap Linux kernel
feature through sysfs. Specifically, it provides powercap-info and powercap-
set for generic access to powercap control types, and rapl-info and rapl-
set for managing Intel RAPL implementations.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/powercap/powercap
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/powercap/powercap-utils_0.6.0-1+b1_amd64.deb