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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "powerstat" package

Please follow the guidance below to install powerstat on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install powerstat

2. Uninstall "powerstat" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall powerstat on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove powerstat $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

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

Package: powerstat
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 61
Maintainer: Colin King
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.02.09-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/p/powerstat/powerstat_0.02.09-1_amd64.deb
Size: 23432
MD5sum: 2421eb45ce63cd1f0a10c200abea8e53
SHA1: 4fcd556e2ae4dde71fe6f4c440c8ea3d7f32a967
SHA256: 23da00c0d8c27d1e2cb5e2c1a5941a61c2c1f05e0c11e230729beffa0a672c5c
Description-en: laptop power measuring tool
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.
Description-md5: 5f83f45185c37210ab7436f38365f7f2
Homepage: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/powerstat
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-touch-core, ubuntu-touch