How To Install lm-sensors on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lm-sensors on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lm-sensors
lm-sensors is:
Lm-sensors is a hardware health monitoring package for Linux. It allows you to access information from temperature, voltage, and fan speed sensors. It works with most newer systems.
This package contains programs to help you set up and read data from lm-sensors. Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install lm-sensors on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lm-sensors Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lm-sensors using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lm-sensors
Install lm-sensors Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lm-sensors using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lm-sensors
Install lm-sensors 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 lm-sensors using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lm-sensors
How To Uninstall lm-sensors on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lm-sensors package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lm-sensors
Uninstall lm-sensors And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lm-sensors and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lm-sensors
Remove lm-sensors Configurations and Data
To remove lm-sensors configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lm-sensors
Remove lm-sensors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lm-sensors configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lm-sensors
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lm-sensors package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
