How To Install acpid on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpid.
Install acpid on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install acpid using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install acpid
Install acpid 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 acpid using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install acpid
How To Uninstall acpid on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the acpid package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove acpid
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
