How To Install acpica-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. acpica-tools.x86_64 is ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `acpica-tools.x86_64`

The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an OS-independent reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification (ACPI). ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables. This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI. The following commands are installed – iasl Machine Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes. – acpibin (e.g., comparison, data extraction) – acpidump – acpiexec definitions – acpihelp op-codes – acpinames – acpisrc files for specific environments – acpixtract (see also the pmtools package) This version of the tools is being released under GPLv2 license.

We can use yum to install acpica-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpica-tools.x86_64.

Install acpica-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install acpica-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install acpica-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall acpica-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the acpica-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove acpica-tools.x86_64

acpica-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/acpibin
/usr/bin/acpidump-acpica
/usr/bin/acpiexamples
/usr/bin/acpiexec
/usr/bin/acpihelp
/usr/bin/acpinames
/usr/bin/acpisrc
/usr/bin/acpixtract-acpica
/usr/bin/iasl
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools-20160527
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools-20160527/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools-20160527/README
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools-20160527/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools-20160527/new_table.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/acpibin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpidump-acpica.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpiexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpihelp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpinames.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpisrc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpixtract-acpica.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iasl.1.gz

References

acpica-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.