How to Install and Uninstall powertop-dbg Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: June 30,2024

1. Install "powertop-dbg" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install powertop-dbg on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install powertop-dbg

2. Uninstall "powertop-dbg" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall powertop-dbg on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove powertop-dbg $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the powertop-dbg package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: powertop-dbg
Priority: extra
Section: debug
Installed-Size: 2064
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jose Luis Rivas
Architecture: amd64
Source: powertop
Version: 2.8-1build1
Depends: powertop (= 2.8-1build1)
Filename: pool/main/p/powertop/powertop-dbg_2.8-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 2003428
MD5sum: bbed36ca74f0f85650a7db6b21dd2d09
SHA1: b0d9f62a0ee2cf723bc82be0fbe2cf7021ec0e6a
SHA256: bb829b4c2ba0b0b191a532f654e567c19304f4c347f062e41734911d98f2b129
Description-en: debugging symbols for powertop
PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and
power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also
has an interactive mode you can use to experiment with various power
management settings, for cases where the Linux distribution has not
enabled those settings.
.
PowerTOP reports which components in the system are most likely to blame
for higher-than-needed power consumption, ranging from software
applications to active components in the system. Detailed screens are
available for CPU C and P states, device activity, and software activity.
.
This package contains the debugging symbols for powertop.
Description-md5: dbabe6539aef2478324da085541f8b98
Homepage: https://01.org/powertop/
Build-Ids: d42f74a72d5d6d6dfd6774d1d6b464c3a8fbcfa4
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m