How To Install libsensors-config on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors-config
on Debian 10.
What is libsensors-config
libsensors-config is:
Lm-sensors is a hardware health monitoring package for Linux. It allows you to access information from temperature, voltage, and fan speed sensors. It works with most newer systems.
This library is only functional with a Linux kernel, it is provided on non-Linux systems for portability reasons only.
This package contains the configuration files.
There are three methods to install libsensors-config
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsensors-config Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsensors-config
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsensors-config
Install libsensors-config Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsensors-config
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsensors-config
Install libsensors-config 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 libsensors-config
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsensors-config
How To Uninstall libsensors-config on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libsensors-config
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsensors-config
Uninstall libsensors-config And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsensors-config
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsensors-config
Remove libsensors-config Configurations and Data
To remove libsensors-config
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsensors-config
Remove libsensors-config configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsensors-config
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsensors-config
Dependencies
libsensors-config have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors-config
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.