How To Install thermald on Fedora 34

thermald is Thermal Management daemon

Introduction

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

What is thermald

thermald monitors and controls platform temperature. Thermal issues are important to handle proactively to reduce performance impact. thermald uses the existing Linux kernel infrastructure and can be easily enhanced.

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

Install thermald 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 thermald using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install thermald

Install thermald 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 thermald using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install thermald

How To Uninstall thermald on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove thermald

thermald Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/thermald
/etc/thermald/thermal-cpu-cdev-order.xml
/run/thermald
/run/thermald/thermald.pid
/usr/bin/thermald-set-pref
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/b2475238a5e87ad270c2fb4bf021bf6fe31472
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thermald.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/thermald.conf
/usr/sbin/thermald
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.thermald.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.thermald.conf
/usr/share/doc/thermald
/usr/share/doc/thermald/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/thermald/thermal_daemon_usage.txt
/usr/share/licenses/thermald
/usr/share/licenses/thermald/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/thermal-conf.xml.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thermald.8.gz
/etc/thermald
/etc/thermald/thermal-cpu-cdev-order.xml
/run/thermald
/run/thermald/thermald.pid
/usr/bin/thermald-set-pref
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/28655ec228b322698227c18a0e6d5b9fc30eb4
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thermald.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/thermald.conf
/usr/sbin/thermald
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.thermald.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.thermald.conf
/usr/share/doc/thermald
/usr/share/doc/thermald/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/thermald/thermal_daemon_usage.txt
/usr/share/licenses/thermald
/usr/share/licenses/thermald/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/thermal-conf.xml.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thermald.8.gz

References

Summary

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