How To Install schedtool on Fedora 34

schedtool is Tool to query or alter process scheduling policy

Introduction

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

What is schedtool

Schedtool interfaces with the Linux CPU scheduler. It allows the user to set and query the CPU-affinity and nice-levels of processes, as well as all scheduling policies, like batch or real-time (RR/FIFO) classes and their priorities

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

Install schedtool 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 schedtool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install schedtool

Install schedtool 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 schedtool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install schedtool

How To Uninstall schedtool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove schedtool

schedtool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/schedtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/c6365ae038c7881527ae94b76fc223be053073
/usr/share/doc/schedtool/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/schedtool/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/schedtool/README
/usr/share/doc/schedtool/SCHED_DESIGN
/usr/share/doc/schedtool/TODO
/usr/share/doc/schedtool/TUNING
/usr/share/man/man8/schedtool.8.gz

References

Summary

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