How To Install thinkfan on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install thinkfan in Fedora 36. thinkfan is A simple fan control program

Introduction

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

What is `thinkfan`

A simple fan control program. Works with any Linux hwmon driver, especially with thinkpad_acpi. It is designed to eat as little CPU power as possible.

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

Install thinkfan 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 thinkfan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install thinkfan

Install thinkfan 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 thinkfan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install thinkfan

How To Uninstall thinkfan on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove thinkfan

thinkfan Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/modprobe.d/thinkfan.conf
/etc/sysconfig/thinkfan
/etc/thinkfan.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/45e8b32dd6a62a9025202f8a6b8157bf3f8aeb
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan-sleep.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan-wakeup.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan.service
/usr/sbin/thinkfan
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan/thinkfan.yaml
/usr/share/licenses/thinkfan
/usr/share/licenses/thinkfan/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/thinkfan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/thinkfan.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/thinkfan.conf.legacy.5.gz

References

thinkfan website

Summary

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