How To Install powertop on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install powertop on Rocky Linux 8. powertop is Power consumption monitor

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.