How To Install thermald on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald on Rocky Linux 8.
What is thermald
thermald monitors and controls platform temperature. Thermal issues are important to handle proactively to reduce performance impact. thermald uses the existing Linux kernel infrastructure and can be easily enhanced.
We can use yum or dnf to install thermald on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install thermald.
Install thermald on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install thermald using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install thermald
Install thermald on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install thermald using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install thermald
How To Uninstall thermald on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the thermald package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove thermald
thermald Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/thermald
/etc/thermald/thermal-cpu-cdev-order.xml
/run/thermald
/run/thermald/thermald.pid
/usr/bin/thermald-set-pref
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/ed9b3605af2043c7caaa3a2ced9e06d9f6ee11
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thermald.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/thermald.conf
/usr/sbin/thermald
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.thermald.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.thermald.conf
/usr/share/doc/thermald
/usr/share/doc/thermald/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/thermald/thermal_daemon_usage.txt
/usr/share/licenses/thermald
/usr/share/licenses/thermald/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/thermal-conf.xml.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thermald.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
