How To Install radeontool on Fedora 34

radeontool is Backlight and video output configuration tool for radeon cards

Introduction

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

What is radeontool

radeontool is used for debugging radeon related issues. In the past it has been used for backlight control, but this should no longer be required.

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

Install radeontool 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 radeontool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install radeontool

Install radeontool 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 radeontool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install radeontool

How To Uninstall radeontool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove radeontool

radeontool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/avivotool
/usr/bin/radeonreg
/usr/bin/radeontool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/ae6ac54c694862c7e0f1aab08f0e4f5376ccf7
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/76fa0701cf846209d92c8d0d1c9a2e30b01ae2
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/09af769e322d3737d7a8ef0cfc7633aee94382

References

Summary

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