How To Install switcheroo-control on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install switcheroo-control on CentOS 8.
What is switcheroo-control
D-Bus service to check the availability of dual-GPU.
We can use yum or dnf to install switcheroo-control on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install switcheroo-control.
Install switcheroo-control 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 switcheroo-control using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install switcheroo-control
Install switcheroo-control 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 switcheroo-control using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install switcheroo-control
How To Uninstall switcheroo-control on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the switcheroo-control package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove switcheroo-control
switcheroo-control Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/net.hadess.SwitcherooControl.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/4149ad8c10cc575b10b7769c5691286e4e9281
/usr/lib/systemd/system/switcheroo-control.service
/usr/sbin/switcheroo-control
/usr/share/doc/switcheroo-control
/usr/share/doc/switcheroo-control/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/switcheroo-control/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/switcheroo-control
/usr/share/licenses/switcheroo-control/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install switcheroo-control on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.