How To Install libsensors5 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors5 on Kali Linux.

What is libsensors5

libsensors5 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 a shared library for querying lm-sensors.

There are three methods to install libsensors5 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 libsensors5 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libsensors5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libsensors5

Install libsensors5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libsensors5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libsensors5

Install libsensors5 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 libsensors5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsensors5

How To Uninstall libsensors5 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libsensors5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsensors5

Uninstall libsensors5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsensors5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsensors5

Remove libsensors5 Configurations and Data

To remove libsensors5 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsensors5

Remove libsensors5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libsensors5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsensors5

Dependencies

libsensors5 have the following dependencies:

• libsensors-config
• libc6

References

• libsensors5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors5 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.