How To Install wmacpi on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmacpi on Fedora 34.
What is wmacpi
Dockapp which displays acpi/apm information. his is a typical laptop ACPI dockapp. One interesting feature is the “timer” mode, where you can keep track of how long the laptop has been “on battery”. This is opposite of the information usually provided by the BIOS, which is “time remaining”, and in many cases wrong. This option can be toggled at run-time. System messages scroll on the bottom of the window, AC plug flashes when battery is charging, and green LED inside the big button flashes red if battery level is critical low.
We can use yum or dnf to install wmacpi on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wmacpi.
Install wmacpi 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 wmacpi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wmacpi
Install wmacpi 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 wmacpi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wmacpi
How To Uninstall wmacpi on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the wmacpi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wmacpi
wmacpi Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/wmacpi
/usr/bin/wmacpi-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/048b35dfe2b0c5f51fff4e40e0d1825187ee3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/21ce8c3ff70302232596c5fc3dd0e05713c2b4
/usr/share/doc/wmacpi
/usr/share/doc/wmacpi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wmacpi/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wmacpi/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wmacpi/README
/usr/share/man/man1/wmacpi-cli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wmacpi.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmacpi on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
