How To Install psensor on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psensor on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is psensor
psensor is:
Psensor is a GTK+ application for monitoring hardware sensors, including temperatures and fan speeds.
It displays a curve for each sensor, alerts user using Desktop Notification and Application Indicator when a temperature is too high.
It can monitor:
- 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 or atasmart lib).
- the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
- the sensors of a remote computer (using psensor-server).
There are three methods to install psensor 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install psensor
Install psensor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install psensor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install psensor
Install psensor 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install psensor
How To Uninstall psensor on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the psensor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove psensor
Uninstall psensor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall psensor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove psensor
Remove psensor Configurations and Data
To remove psensor configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge psensor
Remove psensor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove psensor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psensor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psensor package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
