How To Install powertop on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop on Fedora 34.
What is powertop
PowerTOP is a tool that finds the software component(s) that make your computer use more power than necessary while it is idle.
We can use yum or dnf to install powertop on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install powertop.
Install powertop 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 powertop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install powertop
Install powertop 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 powertop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install powertop
How To Uninstall powertop on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the powertop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove powertop
powertop Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/5b5737f6a77c3fc175da8504bd50eddd220ad4
/usr/lib/systemd/system/powertop.service
/usr/sbin/powertop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/powertop
/usr/share/doc/powertop
/usr/share/doc/powertop/CONTRIBUTE.md
/usr/share/doc/powertop/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/powertop/README.md
/usr/share/doc/powertop/README.traceevent
/usr/share/doc/powertop/TODO
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/powertop.8.gz
/var/cache/powertop
/var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
/var/cache/powertop/saved_results.powertop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/8c321b9ba42cf5d24aebdf6f9c42a097c635e4
/usr/lib/systemd/system/powertop.service
/usr/sbin/powertop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/powertop
/usr/share/doc/powertop
/usr/share/doc/powertop/CONTRIBUTE.md
/usr/share/doc/powertop/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/powertop/README.md
/usr/share/doc/powertop/README.traceevent
/usr/share/doc/powertop/TODO
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/powertop.8.gz
/var/cache/powertop
/var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
/var/cache/powertop/saved_results.powertop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.