Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apcupsd-gui on CentOS 8.
What is apcupsd-gui
A GUI interface to the APC UPS monitoring daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install apcupsd-gui on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apcupsd-gui.
Install apcupsd-gui 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 apcupsd-gui using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install apcupsd-gui
Install apcupsd-gui 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 apcupsd-gui using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install apcupsd-gui
How To Uninstall apcupsd-gui on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the apcupsd-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove apcupsd-gui
apcupsd-gui Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gapcmon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/c551ef54baf5337353c9813b1df205a2e41ce2
/usr/share/applications/fedora-gapcmon.desktop
/usr/share/pixmaps/apcupsd.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/apcupsd64x64.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/charging.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/gapc_prefs.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/onbatt.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/online.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/unplugged.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apcupsd-gui on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
