How to Install and Uninstall powernap Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: June 30,2024

1. Install "powernap" package

Learn how to install powernap on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install powernap

2. Uninstall "powernap" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall powernap on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove powernap $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the powernap package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: powernap
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 150
Maintainer: Andres Rodriguez
Original-Maintainer: Dustin Kirkland
Architecture: all
Version: 2.21-0ubuntu1
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7), python:any, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, pm-utils, powernap-common (= 2.21-0ubuntu1)
Recommends: ethtool
Filename: pool/main/p/powernap/powernap_2.21-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 19392
MD5sum: d4d8d16ba088e218aac01a7e69c0a325
SHA1: ef490165fd111f2900eadd56cd9872acab79ca16
SHA256: 3690a599b7d5c3e0d989fd724ad66b10d6fb3ba488cdbb35c47e01a12809b9a7
Description-en: reduce the power consumption of a system when inactive
PowerNap watches a series of configurable monitors. When no activity
has occurred on any of these monitors for some specified time, PowerNap
deems the system inactive, and takes action, as configured by the system
administrator.
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PowerNap can monitor:
* User Activity (Console, Keyboard, Mouse)
* System Activity (Load, Processes, Process IO)
* Network Activity (wake-on-lan, UDP ports, TCP ports)
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Some of these are event-based, while others are poll-based. PowerNap's
polling interval, INTERVAL_SECONDS, is configurable.
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The required length of inactivity, ABSENT_SECONDS, is configurable.
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The action taken by PowerNap when the system is active, is configurable,
and might be one of pm-powersave, pm-suspend, pm-hibernate, poweroff,
or any executable script as chosen by the system administrator.
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See /etc/powernap/config for all configurable options and defaults.
Description-md5: ba417044633f8e9a064bd246de1d1ba9
Enhances: powerwake
Homepage: http://launchpad.net/powernap
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions