How To Install rtkit on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtkit on Fedora 34.
What is rtkit
RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to be used as a secure mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to be used by normal user processes.
We can use yum or dnf to install rtkit on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtkit.
Install rtkit 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 rtkit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rtkit
Install rtkit 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 rtkit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rtkit
How To Uninstall rtkit on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rtkit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rtkit
rtkit Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/73a405fe9b8f0119eafe419e79a6162cb107d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/f8b21b7b76f1aa5752b67326644a87cfebdb74
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rtkit-daemon.service
/usr/libexec/rtkit-daemon
/usr/sbin/rtkitctl
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.service
/usr/share/doc/rtkit
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/GPL
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/README
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/rtkit.c
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/rtkit.h
/usr/share/man/man8/rtkitctl.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.policy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtkit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.