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title: Powerstat on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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excerpt: Today, after reading about power management tricks, I needed to run powerstat
  on my machine, and found out that powertop is not provided in the default Ubuntu
  12.04 repositories. I added the Colin King&rsquo;s ppa (Colin King is the creator<p><a
  href="http://santoro.tk/blog/?p=140">Continue reading</a></p>
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date: '2013-03-01 10:57:22 +0000'
date_gmt: '2013-03-01 08:57:22 +0000'
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<p>Today, after reading about power management tricks, I needed to run powerstat on my machine, and found out that powertop is not provided in the default Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.</p>
<p>I added the Colin King&#8217;s ppa (Colin King is the creator of powerstat) but I realized that the version provided in that ppa is too old to run on modern systems.</p>
<p>I wrote an e-mail to Mr. King to let him know about this issue, then I headed to the git repository.</p>
<p>I was surprised to see that powerstat is a simple C program (less than 1500 lines of code long, comments included) and that building it was as easy as typing `<code>make`</code> and pressing enter.</p>
<p>Some simple notes:</p>
<ul>
<li>powerstat homepage is at <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/powerstat/" >http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/powerstat/</a></li>
<li>powerstat git repository page is at <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=cking/powerstat.git;a=summary" >http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=cking/powerstat.git;a=summary</a></li>
<li>powerstat git url is: <a href="git://kernel.ubuntu.com/cking/powerstat.git" >git://kernel.ubuntu.com/cking/powerstat.git</a></li>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bye</p>