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