How To Install gnome-shell-extension-freon on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-freon on Debian 12.
What is gnome-shell-extension-freon
gnome-shell-extension-freon is:
Freon is a fork of gnome-shell-extension-sensors, 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.
There are three methods to install gnome-shell-extension-freon on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-shell-extension-freon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-freon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-shell-extension-freon
Install gnome-shell-extension-freon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-freon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-shell-extension-freon
Install gnome-shell-extension-freon 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 gnome-shell-extension-freon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-shell-extension-freon
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-freon on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-freon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-extension-freon
Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-freon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-shell-extension-freon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-shell-extension-freon
Remove gnome-shell-extension-freon Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-shell-extension-freon configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-shell-extension-freon
Remove gnome-shell-extension-freon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-shell-extension-freon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-shell-extension-freon
Dependencies
gnome-shell-extension-freon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-freon package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.