How To Install gnome-shell-extension-freon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-freon on CentOS 7.
What is gnome-shell-extension-freon
Freon is a GNOME Shell extension for displaying the temperature of your CPU, hard disk, solid state, and video card (NVIDIA, Catalyst, and Bumblebee supported), as well as power supply voltage, and fan speed. You can choose which HDD/SSD or other devices to include, what temperature units to use, and how often to refresh the sensors readout, and they will appear in the GNOME Shell top bar. For the GPU temperature, you may need to install the vendor’s driver for best results.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-shell-extension-freon on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-shell-extension-freon.
Install gnome-shell-extension-freon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-freon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-shell-extension-freon
Install gnome-shell-extension-freon on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-freon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-shell-extension-freon
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-freon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-freon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-shell-extension-freon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-freon on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
