How To Install acpitool on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpitool in Fedora 36. acpitool is Command line ACPI client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpitool on Fedora 36.

What is `acpitool`

AcpiTool is a Linux ACPI client. It’s a small command line application, intended to be a replacement for the apm tool. Besides “basic” ACPI information like battery status, AC presence, putting the laptop to sleep, Acpitool also supports various extensions for Toshiba, Asus and IBM Thinkpad laptops, allowing you to change the LCD brightness level, toggle fan on/off, and more.

We can use yum or dnf to install acpitool on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpitool.

Install acpitool on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install acpitool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install acpitool

Install acpitool on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install acpitool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install acpitool

How To Uninstall acpitool on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove acpitool

acpitool Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/acpitool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/42279a824ca1b431862c0e8df92b3d07026149
/usr/share/doc/acpitool
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/README
/usr/share/doc/acpitool/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/acpitool.1.gz

References

acpitool website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpitool on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).