How To Install gnome-shell-extension-freon on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-freon on Kali Linux. gnome-shell-extension-freon is GNOME Shell Extension for Sensors

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-freon on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.