How To Install psensor-server on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psensor-server on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is psensor-server
psensor-server is:
Psensor server is an HTTP server providing a JSON Web service which can be used by Psensor GTK+ Application to monitor remotely the hardware sensors of a computer.
It can provide information about:
- the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors).
- the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
- the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp).
- the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
It is also possible to connect to Psensor server with a browser, a simple Web page is displaying the information.
There are three methods to install psensor-server on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install psensor-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install psensor-server using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install psensor-server
Install psensor-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install psensor-server using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install psensor-server
Install psensor-server 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install psensor-server using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install psensor-server
How To Uninstall psensor-server on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the psensor-server package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove psensor-server
Uninstall psensor-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall psensor-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove psensor-server
Remove psensor-server Configurations and Data
To remove psensor-server configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge psensor-server
Remove psensor-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove psensor-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psensor-server
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psensor-server package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
