Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on CentOS 8.
What is acpica-tools
The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an OS-independent reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification (ACPI). ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables. This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI. The following commands are installed – iasl Language), suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes. – acpibin comparison, data extraction) – acpidump – acpiexec – acpihelp – acpinames – acpisrc for specific environments – acpixtract also the pmtools package) This version of the tools is being released under GPLv2 license.
We can use yum or dnf to install acpica-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpica-tools.
Install acpica-tools on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install acpica-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install acpica-tools
Install acpica-tools on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install acpica-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install acpica-tools
How To Uninstall acpica-tools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the acpica-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove acpica-tools
acpica-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/acpibin
/usr/bin/acpidump
/usr/bin/acpiexamples
/usr/bin/acpiexec
/usr/bin/acpihelp
/usr/bin/acpinames
/usr/bin/acpisrc
/usr/bin/acpixtract
/usr/bin/iasl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/477c6edc6b6da3ac70b96ba0ca804c081c8918
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/d43b0a31958b389dc7f439a0cfee6d06db61a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/73dd792abaac731a2ba53149b6eb8656720b26
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/f44ee004c277864f4a8986db9394fea25b62d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/33b477f6ce487c20d80d504e702b1a3a51ebec
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/b732c4de0ce9779fa96e75eb5b8cc81d392813
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/42cebed6a1b64b1151643a1c88a7eba3eb567e
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/13f0df5358df095d97607fe85ffeda0b8e9ffc
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/f9735d06b7c4f96f5e485e31955dc5ebc294e5
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/examples.c
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/examples.h
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/exstubs.c
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/examples/extables.c
/usr/share/doc/acpica-tools/new_table.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/acpibin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpidump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpiexamples.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpiexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpihelp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpinames.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpisrc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acpixtract.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iasl.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install acpica-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
