How To Install powertop on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is powertop
PowerTOP is a tool that finds the software component(s) that make your computer use more power than necessary while it is idle.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install powertop
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install powertop.
Install powertop 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 powertop
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install powertop
Install powertop 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 powertop
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install powertop
How To Uninstall powertop on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the powertop
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove powertop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.