How To Install apmd on Fedora 34

apmd is Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS utilities for laptops

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apmd on Fedora 34.

What is apmd

APMD is a set of programs for controlling the Advanced Power Management daemon and utilities found in most modern laptop computers. APMD can watch your notebook’s battery and warn users when the battery is low. APMD is also capable of shutting down the PCMCIA sockets before a suspend. Install the apmd package if you need to control the APM system on your laptop.

We can use yum or dnf to install apmd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apmd.

Install apmd 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 apmd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install apmd

Install apmd 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 apmd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install apmd

How To Uninstall apmd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove apmd

apmd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/modules-load.d/apmd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts
/etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript
/etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/laptopmode
/etc/sysconfig/apmd
/usr/bin/apm
/usr/bin/apmsleep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/0b0a80b922f53c69078f76b6aa9a8e685a8fb6
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/050e9f77b173b4cb25bbd41e2fc878f1c6bbf4
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/14017ddbe866e872c0433db583d5d09701c842
/usr/lib/systemd/system/apmd.service
/usr/sbin/apmd
/usr/share/doc/apmd
/usr/share/doc/apmd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/apmd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/apmd/LSM
/usr/share/doc/apmd/README
/usr/share/licenses/apmd
/usr/share/licenses/apmd/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/apmd/apmlib.COPYING
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/apmsleep.fr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apmsleep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apmd.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apmd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.