How To Install libsensors4-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors4-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libsensors4-dev
libsensors4-dev 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 static library and header files used in development.
There are three methods to install libsensors4-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsensors4-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsensors4-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsensors4-dev
Install libsensors4-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsensors4-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsensors4-dev
Install libsensors4-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libsensors4-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsensors4-dev
How To Uninstall libsensors4-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libsensors4-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsensors4-dev
Uninstall libsensors4-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsensors4-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsensors4-dev
Remove libsensors4-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libsensors4-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsensors4-dev
Remove libsensors4-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsensors4-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsensors4-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors4-dev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.