How To Install powerdevil on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerdevil on CentOS 8. powerdevil is Manages the power consumption settings of a Plasma Shell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerdevil on CentOS 8.

What is powerdevil

Powerdevil is an utility for powermanagement. It consists of a daemon (a KDED module) and a KCModule for its configuration.

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

Install powerdevil on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install powerdevil

Install powerdevil on CentOS 8 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 powerdevil using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install powerdevil

How To Uninstall powerdevil on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove powerdevil

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerdevil on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.