How To Install tlp-rdw on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tlp-rdw on CentOS 8.
What is tlp-rdw
Radio device wizard is an add-on to TLP. It provides event based switching of - Bluetooth, WiFi, WWAN radio devices - upon network connect/disconnect - and dock/undock
We can use yum or dnf to install tlp-rdw on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tlp-rdw.
Install tlp-rdw on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install tlp-rdw using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tlp-rdw
Install tlp-rdw on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install tlp-rdw using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tlp-rdw
How To Uninstall tlp-rdw on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tlp-rdw package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tlp-rdw
tlp-rdw Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99tlp-rdw-nm
/usr/bin/tlp-rdw
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/85-tlp-rdw.rules
/usr/lib/udev/tlp-rdw-udev
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tlp-rdw
/usr/share/doc/tlp-rdw
/usr/share/doc/tlp-rdw/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tlp-rdw/README.md
/usr/share/doc/tlp-rdw/changelog
/usr/share/man/man8/tlp-rdw.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tlp-rdw on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
