How To Install thermald on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald on CentOS 7. thermald is Thermal Management daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald on CentOS 7.

What is thermald

thermald monitors and controls platform temperature. Thermal issues are important to handle proactively to reduce performance impact. thermald uses the existing Linux kernel infrastructure and can be easily enhanced.

We can use yum or dnf to install thermald on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install thermald.

Install thermald on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install thermald

Install thermald 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install thermald

How To Uninstall thermald on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove thermald

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install thermald on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.