How To Install light on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install light on Fedora 34.
What is light
Light is a program to control backlight controllers under GNU/Linux, it is the successor of lightscript, which was a bash script with the same purpose, and tries to maintain the same functionality. Features - Works excellent where other software have been proven unusable or problematic, thanks to how it operates internally and the fact that it does not rely on X. - Can automatically figure out the best controller to use, making full use of underlying hardware. - Possibility to set a minimum brightness value, as some controllers set the screen to be pitch black at a value of 0 (or higher).
We can use yum or dnf to install light on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install light.
Install light 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 light using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install light
Install light 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 light using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install light
How To Uninstall light on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the light package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove light
light Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/light
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/d396c1e1e29cb64d61796827557e8f4d91497d
/usr/share/doc/light
/usr/share/doc/light/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/light/ChangeLog.md
/usr/share/doc/light/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/light.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install light on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.