How To Install mate-sensors-applet on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-sensors-applet on CentOS 7.

What is mate-sensors-applet

MATE Sensors Applet is an applet for the MATE Panel to display readings from hardware sensors, including CPU and system temperatures, fan speeds and voltage readings under Linux. Can interface via the Linux kernel i2c modules, or the i8k kernel modules Includes a simple, yet highly customization display and intuitive user-interface. Alarms can be set for each sensor to notify the user once a certain value has been reached, and can be configured to execute a given command at given repeated intervals.

We can use yum or dnf to install mate-sensors-applet on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mate-sensors-applet.

Install mate-sensors-applet on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mate-sensors-applet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mate-sensors-applet

Install mate-sensors-applet on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mate-sensors-applet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mate-sensors-applet

How To Uninstall mate-sensors-applet on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove mate-sensors-applet

References

• mate-sensors-applet website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-sensors-applet on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.