[Novalug] PowerTop

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Nino Pereira <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Mackenzie
>
> (powertop) sounded so interesting that I immediately downloaded it. But,
>>>
>>> on trying to install, I get an error from the loader:
>>
>> Just apt-get install powertop instead of trying to compile it.  It's
>> in Debian & Ubuntu's repos, and I would imagine other deb-based
>> distros' as well.
>>
> I had already tried that, because that's what it suggested on the
> powertop web page. But, it didn't work:
>
> pereira at lithium:~$ sudo apt-get install powertop
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package powertop
>
> My /etc/apt/sources.list file includes only a few from 'stable':
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
>
> Which should I add to find programs like powertop?

It's in Etch's backports repo
http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/powertop

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