How To Install xsensors on CentOS 8

xsensors is An X11 interface to lm_sensors

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xsensors on CentOS 8.

What is xsensors

Xsensors is a simple GUI program that allows you to read useful data from the lm_sensors library in a digital read-out like fashion, such as the temperature, voltage ratings and fan speeds of the running computer.

We can use yum or dnf to install xsensors on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xsensors.

Install xsensors 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 xsensors using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xsensors

Install xsensors 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 xsensors using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xsensors

How To Uninstall xsensors on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the xsensors package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xsensors

xsensors Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/xsensors
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/c40ed333da167c0568992e5350a2eecefe74e5
/usr/share/appdata/xsensors.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/xsensors.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xsensors
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/xsensors.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/xsensors.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/xsensors.png
/usr/share/man/man1/xsensors.1.gz
/usr/share/xsensors/theme.tiff

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xsensors on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.