How To Install lm-sensors on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lm-sensors

lm-sensors 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 package contains programs to help you set up and read data from lm-sensors.

There are three methods to install lm-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 lm-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 lm-sensors using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lm-sensors

Install lm-sensors Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lm-sensors

Install lm-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 lm-sensors using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lm-sensors

How To Uninstall lm-sensors on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lm-sensors package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lm-sensors

Uninstall lm-sensors And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lm-sensors

Remove lm-sensors Configurations and Data

To remove lm-sensors configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lm-sensors

Remove lm-sensors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lm-sensors

Dependencies

lm-sensors have the following dependencies:

• sed
• lsb-base
• libc6
• libsensors5

References

• lm-sensors website

Summary

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