How To Install indicator-sensors on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-sensors on Debian 12.
What is indicator-sensors
indicator-sensors is:
Application indicator to display and monitor the readings from various hardware sensors (temperature, fan speeds, voltages etc) in the desktop panel for GNOME
There are three methods to install indicator-sensors 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 indicator-sensors Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-sensors using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install indicator-sensors
Install indicator-sensors Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-sensors using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install indicator-sensors
Install indicator-sensors 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 indicator-sensors using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install indicator-sensors
How To Uninstall indicator-sensors on Debian 12
To uninstall only the indicator-sensors package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-sensors
Uninstall indicator-sensors And Its Dependencies
To uninstall indicator-sensors and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove indicator-sensors
Remove indicator-sensors Configurations and Data
To remove indicator-sensors configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge indicator-sensors
Remove indicator-sensors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove indicator-sensors configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indicator-sensors
Dependencies
indicator-sensors have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-peas-1.0
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libayatana-appindicator3-1
- libc6
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libgirepository-1.0-1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libnotify4
- libpeas-1.0-0
- libsensors5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-sensors package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.