How To Install fancontrol on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fancontrol on Debian 11.
What is fancontrol
fancontrol is:
Lm-sensors is a hardware health monitoring package for Linux. It allows you to access information from temperature, voltage, and fan speed sensors. It works with most newer systems.
This package contains a daemon that calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values. This is useful when this feature is not provided by the BIOS or ACPI, which should normally be the case on a laptop.
There are three methods to install fancontrol on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fancontrol Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fancontrol using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fancontrol
Install fancontrol Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fancontrol using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fancontrol
Install fancontrol Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fancontrol using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fancontrol
How To Uninstall fancontrol on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fancontrol package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fancontrol
Uninstall fancontrol And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fancontrol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fancontrol
Remove fancontrol Configurations and Data
To remove fancontrol configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fancontrol
Remove fancontrol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fancontrol configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fancontrol
Dependencies
fancontrol have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fancontrol package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
