How To Install mbmon on Debian 10

Learn how to install mbmon on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mbmon is Hardware monitoring without kernel dependencies (text client)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbmon on Debian 10.

What is mbmon

mbmon is:

(x)mbmon allows you to monitor hardware status using your motherboard’s sensors. This information can be: temperatures, voltages and/or fan speeds.

This package contains the console client.

There are three methods to install mbmon on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mbmon Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mbmon

Install mbmon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mbmon

Install mbmon 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install mbmon

How To Uninstall mbmon on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove mbmon

Uninstall mbmon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mbmon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbmon

Remove mbmon Configurations and Data

To remove mbmon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mbmon

Remove mbmon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mbmon

Dependencies

mbmon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbmon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.