How To Install acpid on AlmaLinux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid on AlmaLinux 8.

What is acpid

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.

We can use yum or dnf to install acpid on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpid.

Install acpid on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install acpid

Install acpid on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install acpid

How To Uninstall acpid on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove acpid

References

• acpid website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.