How To Install acpitool on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpitool on Fedora 34.
What is acpitool
AcpiTool is a Linux ACPI client. It’s a small command line application, intended to be a replacement for the apm tool. Besides “basic” ACPI information like battery status, AC presence, putting the laptop to sleep, Acpitool also supports various extensions for Toshiba, Asus and IBM Thinkpad laptops, allowing you to change the LCD brightness level, toggle fan on/off, and more.
We can use yum or dnf to install acpitool on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpitool.
Install acpitool on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install acpitool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install acpitool
Install acpitool on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install acpitool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install acpitool
How To Uninstall acpitool on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the acpitool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove acpitool
acpitool Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/acpitool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/c3db9bcccaa3c19d88d6754395cb6144e2381a
/usr/share/doc/acpitool
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/README
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/acpitool.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpitool on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
