Information about the package, acpid, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The acpid package is designed for, ACPI Event Daemon.
Package Name:
acpid
Summary:
ACPI Event Daemon
Description:
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.10
Release:
3.el6
Size:
37 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the acpid package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install acpid
This command will install acpid on the server.
yum remove acpid
This command will un-install acpid on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove acpid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove acpid
This command will un-install acpid on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove acpid when using the -y flag.
yum update acpid
This command will update acpid to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove acpid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update acpid
This command will update acpid to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove acpid when using the -y flag.
yum info acpid
This command will show you core information about the acpid package.
yum deplist acpid
This command will show you the dependencies for acpid. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update acpid
This command will check if there is an update waiting on acpid. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.