How To Install indicator-sensors on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-sensors on Kali Linux. indicator-sensors is Hardware sensors indicator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-sensors on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 indicator-sensors using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install indicator-sensors

How To Uninstall indicator-sensors on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-sensors package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.