How To Install acpica-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on Rocky Linux 8. acpica-tools is ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes. – acpibin comparison, data extraction) – acpidump – acpiexec – acpihelp – acpinames – acpisrc for specific environments – acpixtract 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpica-tools.

Install acpica-tools on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install acpica-tools

Install acpica-tools on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install acpica-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install acpica-tools

How To Uninstall acpica-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the acpica-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove acpica-tools

acpica-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/acpibin
/usr/bin/acpidump
/usr/bin/acpiexamples
/usr/bin/acpiexec
/usr/bin/acpihelp
/usr/bin/acpinames
/usr/bin/acpisrc
/usr/bin/acpixtract
/usr/bin/iasl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/6a38102842ed6cbe7b3934446a7ed2e8efe365
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/50c120d85db5cd71d30eb4d6f2c678dcc477c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/07acd9aeb0cd702024ff0fb0514e1a08f9215c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/ac4b3a0999809c2245e00580e05a03be4167f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/101936b3963e4fb611852ef918e0f071211253
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/f02854379ccb759ebdc15ff8ef1dae64b9db09
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/c3226d5778cd9c32cac276e20c4d14ee39906e
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/808ce181dbbbc3c74aec5e05c3a11f2d64b455
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/b42228482c7125563e3df8d8d7b508b7e44772
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/examples.c
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/examples.h
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/exstubs.c
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/extables.c
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/new_table.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/acpibin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpidump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpiexamples.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpiexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpihelp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpinames.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpisrc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpixtract.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iasl.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.