How To Install xsensors on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xsensors on Rocky Linux 8.
What is xsensors
Xsensors is a simple GUI program that allows you to read useful data from the lm_sensors library in a digital read-out like fashion, such as the temperature, voltage ratings and fan speeds of the running computer.
We can use yum or dnf to install xsensors on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xsensors.
Install xsensors on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install xsensors using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xsensors
Install xsensors on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install xsensors using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xsensors
How To Uninstall xsensors on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the xsensors package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xsensors
xsensors Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/xsensors
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/c40ed333da167c0568992e5350a2eecefe74e5
/usr/share/appdata/xsensors.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/xsensors.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xsensors
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xsensors/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/xsensors.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/xsensors.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/xsensors.png
/usr/share/man/man1/xsensors.1.gz
/usr/share/xsensors/theme.tiff
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xsensors on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.