How to Install acpitool software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

How to Install acpitool software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

acpitool software package provides command line ACPI client, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install acpitool 

acpitool is installed in your system.

Make ensure the acpitool package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep acpitool *

You will get with acpitool package name, version, architecture and description in a table

acpitool package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus
Section Utilities
Package acpitool
Version 0.5.1-4
Description command line ACPI client
Sub Section Utils


See Also, How to uninstall or remove acpitool software package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) ?