How To Install powertop on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install powertop.
Install powertop on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the powertop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove powertop
powertop Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/ce4fbdebea7748e236fd8a99e83f9d9134a8dc
/usr/lib/systemd/system/powertop.service
/usr/sbin/powertop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/powertop
/usr/share/doc/powertop
/usr/share/doc/powertop/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/powertop/README
/usr/share/doc/powertop/TODO
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/powertop.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/powertop.8.gz
/var/cache/powertop
/var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
/var/cache/powertop/saved_results.powertop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.