How To Install hddfancontrol on Fedora 34

hddfancontrol is Control system fan speed by monitoring hard drive temperature

Introduction

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

What is hddfancontrol

HDD Fan control is a command line tool to dynamically control fan speed according to hard drive temperature on Linux.

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

Install hddfancontrol 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 hddfancontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hddfancontrol

Install hddfancontrol 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 hddfancontrol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hddfancontrol

How To Uninstall hddfancontrol on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hddfancontrol

hddfancontrol Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/hddfancontrol.conf
/usr/bin/hddfancontrol
/usr/bin/hddfancontrol-3
/usr/bin/hddfancontrol-3.9
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.3.1-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.3.1-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.3.1-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.3.1-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.3.1-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.3.1-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol-1.3.1-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/bin_dep.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/bin_dep.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/colored_logging.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/__pycache__/colored_logging.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/bin_dep.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/hddfancontrol/colored_logging.py
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hddfancontrol.service
/usr/share/doc/hddfancontrol
/usr/share/doc/hddfancontrol/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hddfancontrol
/usr/share/licenses/hddfancontrol/LICENSE

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Summary

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