How To Install acpica-tools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on CentOS 7.
What is acpica-tools
The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an OS-independent reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification (ACPI). ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables. This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI. The following commands are installed – iasl Machine Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes. – acpibin (e.g., comparison, data extraction) – acpidump – acpiexec definitions – acpihelp op-codes – acpinames – acpisrc files for specific environments – acpixtract (see also the pmtools package) This version of the tools is being released under GPLv2 license.
We can use yum or dnf to install acpica-tools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpica-tools.
Install acpica-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install acpica-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install acpica-tools
Install acpica-tools on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install acpica-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install acpica-tools
How To Uninstall acpica-tools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the acpica-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove acpica-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
