How To Install hddfancontrol on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install hddfancontrol in Fedora 36. hddfancontrol is Control system fan speed by monitoring hard drive temperature

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hddfancontrol on Fedora 36.

What is hddfancontrol

HDD Fan control is a command line tool to dynamically control fan speed according to hard drive temperature on Linux.

We can use yum or dnf to install hddfancontrol on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hddfancontrol.

Install hddfancontrol on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install hddfancontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hddfancontrol

Install hddfancontrol on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install hddfancontrol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hddfancontrol

How To Uninstall hddfancontrol on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the hddfancontrol package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove hddfancontrol

hddfancontrol Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/hddfancontrol.conf
/usr/bin/hddfancontrol
/usr/bin/hddfancontrol-3
/usr/bin/hddfancontrol-3.10
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.5.0-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/bin_dep.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/bin_dep.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/colored_logging.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/colored_logging.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/bin_dep.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hddfancontrol/colored_logging.py
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hddfancontrol.service
/usr/share/doc/hddfancontrol
/usr/share/doc/hddfancontrol/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hddfancontrol
/usr/share/licenses/hddfancontrol/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hddfancontrol on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).