How To Install xsensors on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xsensors on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xsensors.
Install xsensors on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xsensors package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xsensors
xsensors Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xsensors
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/4ea6e3f6d54f06e5a20fa6b81131d02b49bdb3
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.