How To Install brightlight on Fedora 34

brightlight is CLI tool to change screen back-light brightness

Introduction

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

What is brightlight

brightlight gets and sets the screen back-light brightness on Linux systems using the kernel sysfs interface.

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

Install brightlight 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 brightlight using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install brightlight

Install brightlight 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 brightlight using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brightlight

How To Uninstall brightlight on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove brightlight

brightlight Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/brightlight
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/f141c94d76199188bc15d2a6ea80b5ad800153
/usr/share/licenses/brightlight
/usr/share/licenses/brightlight/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

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