Installation of the i8kutils package in Fedora 32

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Hi, I just installed Fedora 32 on my Dell XPS 9560 and everything went smoothly. However, I need to install the i8kutils package to manually control the fans of my laptop, normally I can easily find this package in other Linux distributions, but in Fedora 32 it seems to be absent in any repository.
I then tried to download the latest version of the package from launchpad as a .deb file and I successfully converted it in .rmp by doing:

sudo alien --to-rpm i8kutils_1.43_amd64.deb

Then if I try to install it by:

sudo rpm -U i8kutils-1.43-2.x86_64.rpm

I get this as output:

file / from install of i8kutils-1.43-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.14-2.fc32.x86_64
file /lib from install of i8kutils-1.43-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.14-2.fc32.x86_64
file /usr/bin from install of i8kutils-1.43-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.14-2.fc32.x86_64
file /etc/init.d from install of i8kutils-1.43-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package initscripts-10.02-3.fc32.x86_64
file /etc/init.d from install of i8kutils-1.43-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package chkconfig-1.11-6.fc32.x86_64

Seems there are some conflicts with some other installed packages in the distribution, how can I successfully overcome this and finally correctly install the package?

Thank you in advance.

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The converted package is trying to own directories that are not package-specific but rather part of the fundamental Linux filesystem hierarchy, like / & /lib (and thus owned by the ‘filesystem’ package). It can’t do that. Apparently alien is doing a bad job converting the package - with that I can’t help you, as I have no experience with that tool.

There are i8kutils packages available on COPR, Fedora’s unofficial (user) software repository, for example this one - I think you will have a much easier time using those instead of trying to create your own package, and you’ll also get automatic updates (assuming the repo owner creates them).

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Dear Icts, thank you very much! I did not notice that repo before. It works and I successfully installed it.

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