How To Install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 is ACPI Event Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `acpid-sysvinit.x86_64`

The acpid-sysvinit contains SysV initscript.

We can use yum to install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64.

Install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64

How To Uninstall acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove acpid-sysvinit.x86_64

acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/rc.d/init.d/acpid

References

acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acpid-sysvinit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.