How To Install acpid on CentOS 8

acpid is ACPI Event Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid on CentOS 8.

What is acpid

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.

We can use yum or dnf to install acpid on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpid.

Install acpid 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 acpid using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install acpid

Install acpid 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 acpid using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install acpid

How To Uninstall acpid on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove acpid

acpid Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/acpi
/etc/acpi/actions
/etc/acpi/actions/power.sh
/etc/acpi/events
/etc/acpi/events/powerconf
/etc/acpi/events/videoconf
/etc/sysconfig/acpid
/usr/bin/acpi_listen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/239f827489b6774bf206154448ed46f08c50ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/8652eb10d7c3b8dc276ed7bd4cd4c4a51d6a8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/a25d79451d5d94acd7754a8863844a2fdaaa00
/usr/lib/systemd/system/acpid.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/acpid.socket
/usr/sbin/acpid
/usr/sbin/kacpimon
/usr/share/doc/acpid
/usr/share/doc/acpid/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/acpid/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/acpid/README
/usr/share/doc/acpid/TESTPLAN
/usr/share/doc/acpid/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/acpi_listen.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/acpid.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kacpimon.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.