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