When acpica-tools is not installed, running acpidump or acpixtract produces no suggestions (in either Bionic or Cosmic):<\/p>\n
$ acpixtract
\nacpixtract: command not found
\n$ apt-cache policy acpitools-ca
\nN: Unable to locate package acpitools-ca
\n$ apt-cache policy acpica-tools
\nacpica-tools:
\nInstalled: (none)
\nCandidate: 20180629-1
\nVersion table:
\n20180629-1 500
\n500 http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu cosmic\/universe amd64 Packages
\n$ sudo apt install acpica-tools
\n[sudo] password for jani:
\nReading package lists… Done
\nBuilding dependency tree
\nReading state information… Done
\nThe following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
\nlinux-headers-4.18.0-8 linux-headers-4.18.0-8-generic linux-image-4.18.0-8-generic linux-modules-4.18.0-8-generic
\nlinux-modules-extra-4.18.0-8-generic
\nUse ’sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:
\nacpica-tools
\n0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
\nNeed to get 851 kB of archives.
\nAfter this operation, 2782 kB of additional disk space will be used.
\nGet:1 http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu cosmic\/universe amd64 acpica-tools amd64 20180629-1 [851 kB]
\nFetched 851 kB in 1s (1622 kB\/s)
\nSelecting previously unselected package acpica-tools.
\n(Reading database … 207563 files and directories currently installed.)
\nPreparing to unpack …\/acpica-tools_20180629-1_amd64.deb …
\nUnpacking acpica-tools (20180629-1) …
\nSetting up acpica-tools (20180629-1) …
\nupdate-alternatives: using \/usr\/bin\/acpixtract-acpica to provide \/usr\/bin\/acpixtract (acpixtract) in auto mode
\nupdate-alternatives: warning: skip creation of \/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/acpixtract.1.gz because associated file \/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/acpixtract-acpica.1 (of link group acpixtract) doesn’t exist
\nupdate-alternatives: using \/usr\/bin\/acpidump-acpica to provide \/usr\/bin\/acpidump (acpidump) in auto mode
\nupdate-alternatives: warning: skip creation of \/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/acpidump.1.gz because associated file \/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/acpidump-acpica.1 (of link group acpidump) doesn’t exist
\nProcessing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) …
\n$ acpidump
\nCould not open table file: \/sys\/firmware\/acpi\/tables\/SSDT
\nCould not get ACPI tables, AE_ACCESS
\n$ acpixtract<\/p>\n
Intel ACPI Component Architecture
\nACPI Binary Table Extraction Utility version 20180629
\nCopyright (c) 2000 – 2018 Intel Corporation<\/p>\n
Usage: acpixtract [option] <InputFile>
\nOptions:
\n-a Extract all tables, not just DSDT\/SSDT
\n-f Force extraction, even if there are errors
\n-l List table summaries, do not extract
\n-m Extract multiple DSDT\/SSDTs to a single file
\n-s <signature> Extract all tables with <signature>
\n-v Display version information
\n-vd Display build date and time<\/p>\n
Extract binary ACPI tables from text acpidump output
\nDefault invocation extracts the DSDT and all SSDTs<\/p>\n
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