How To Install upower on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is upower

UPower (formerly DeviceKit-power) provides a daemon, API and command line tools for managing power devices attached to the system. upower 0.99.12 1.fc34 x86_64 167 k upower-0.99.12-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Power Management Service http GPLv2+ UPower (formerly DeviceKit-power) provides a daemon, API and command line tools for managing power devices attached to the system.

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

Install upower 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 upower using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install upower

Install upower 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 upower using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install upower

How To Uninstall upower on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove upower

upower Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/UPower
/etc/UPower/UPower.conf
/usr/bin/upower
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/9b0a7e1ab98946977431dafe08f1d4965692c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/7791fc06d121140ccf5df81f0e33f48acb0d46
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/0727ac81929a4b29d1d80f3d970df07787a7b0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/UPowerGlib-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libupower-glib.so.3
/usr/lib/libupower-glib.so.3.0.1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-hid.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-wup.rules
/usr/libexec/upowerd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.UPower.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UPower.conf
/usr/share/doc/upower
/usr/share/doc/upower/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/upower/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/upower/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/upower/README
/usr/share/licenses/upower
/usr/share/licenses/upower/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/upower.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/UPower.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/upowerd.8.gz
/var/lib/upower
/etc/UPower
/etc/UPower/UPower.conf
/usr/bin/upower
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/5c0f0a804851f0ec45880672a159d9c166d8cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/62ea057bbc4de0d561c16569db41547ebfd833
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/d3e81b13c8a48ce712499fb8cc3984532f63e8
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/UPowerGlib-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libupower-glib.so.3
/usr/lib/libupower-glib.so.3.0.1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-hid.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-hidpp.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-wup.rules
/usr/libexec/upowerd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.UPower.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UPower.conf
/usr/share/doc/upower
/usr/share/doc/upower/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/upower/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/upower/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/upower/README
/usr/share/licenses/upower
/usr/share/licenses/upower/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/upower.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/UPower.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/upowerd.8.gz
/var/lib/upower
/etc/UPower
/etc/UPower/UPower.conf
/usr/bin/upower
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/72f6fd4d288b6bc9214f97f42b6431d3513c8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/062c6f1bb6ea943240272dd34c53a544139845
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/9ffc6429ccb0e10294a4869dd80030e3d16948
/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-hid.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-hidpp.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-wup.rules
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/UPowerGlib-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libupower-glib.so.3
/usr/lib64/libupower-glib.so.3.0.1
/usr/libexec/upowerd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.UPower.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UPower.conf
/usr/share/doc/upower
/usr/share/doc/upower/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/upower/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/upower/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/upower/README
/usr/share/licenses/upower
/usr/share/licenses/upower/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/upower.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/UPower.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/upowerd.8.gz
/var/lib/upower
/etc/UPower
/etc/UPower/UPower.conf
/usr/bin/upower
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/983cc533171854d7e929d703fed2941bf4b453
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/1c9c114685480aea908b5f3c3ab12c632a0237
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/7f7e8f09412742d723b52d64e8c9461e5833a6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-hid.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-upower-wup.rules
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/UPowerGlib-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libupower-glib.so.3
/usr/lib64/libupower-glib.so.3.0.1
/usr/libexec/upowerd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.UPower.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UPower.conf
/usr/share/doc/upower
/usr/share/doc/upower/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/upower/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/upower/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/upower/README
/usr/share/licenses/upower
/usr/share/licenses/upower/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/upower.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/upower.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/UPower.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/upowerd.8.gz
/var/lib/upower

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Summary

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