How To Install tlp on CentOS 8

tlp is Advanced power management tool for Linux

Introduction

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

What is tlp

TLP is an advanced power management tool for Linux. It comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life. At the same time it is highly customizable to fulfill specific user requirements. TLP supplies separate settings profiles for AC and battery power and can enable or disable Bluetooth, WiFi and WWAN radio devices upon system start-up. For ThinkPads it provides a unified way to configure charging thresholds and re-calibrate the battery for all models which support it (via tp-smapi or acpi-call). TLP is a pure command line tool with automated background tasks, it does not contain a GUI.

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

Install tlp 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 tlp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tlp

Install tlp 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 tlp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tlp

How To Uninstall tlp on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove tlp

tlp Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/default/tlp
/usr/bin/bluetooth
/usr/bin/run-on-ac
/usr/bin/run-on-bat
/usr/bin/tlp-pcilist
/usr/bin/tlp-stat
/usr/bin/tlp-usblist
/usr/bin/wifi
/usr/bin/wwan
/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/50-tlp.preset
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tlp-sleep.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tlp.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/85-tlp.rules
/usr/lib/udev/tlp-usb-udev
/usr/sbin/tlp
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/bluetooth
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tlp
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tlp-stat
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/wifi
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/wwan
/usr/share/doc/tlp
/usr/share/doc/tlp/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tlp/README.md
/usr/share/doc/tlp/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/tlp
/usr/share/licenses/tlp/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/bluetooth.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/run-on-ac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/run-on-bat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tlp-pcilist.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tlp-usblist.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wifi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wwan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tlp-sleep.service.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tlp-stat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tlp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tlp.service.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/de.linrunner.tlp.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/tlp
/usr/share/tlp/func.d
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/05-tlp-func-pm
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/10-tlp-func-cpu
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/15-tlp-func-disk
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/20-tlp-func-usb
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/25-tlp-func-rf
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/30-tlp-func-rf-sw
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/35-tlp-func-batt
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/40-tlp-func-bay
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/45-tlp-func-gpu
/usr/share/tlp/func.d/tlp-func-stat
/usr/share/tlp/tlp-func-base
/usr/share/tlp/tpacpi-bat
/var/lib/tlp

References

Summary

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