How To Install brightnessctl on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brightnessctl on Fedora 34.
What is brightnessctl
This program allows you read and control device brightness. Devices, by default, include back-light and LEDs (searched for in corresponding classes). It can also preserve current brightness before applying the operation, allowing for use cases like disabling back-light on lid close.
We can use yum or dnf to install brightnessctl on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install brightnessctl.
Install brightnessctl 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 brightnessctl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install brightnessctl
Install brightnessctl 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 brightnessctl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install brightnessctl
How To Uninstall brightnessctl on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the brightnessctl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove brightnessctl
brightnessctl Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/brightnessctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/383afab4d0820affbb3902a6425347efef848b
/usr/share/doc/brightnessctl
/usr/share/doc/brightnessctl/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/brightnessctl
/usr/share/licenses/brightnessctl/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/brightnessctl.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brightnessctl on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.