Installing psensor on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS
Example of installing psensor on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS using the command sudo apt-get install psensor.
Quick installation of psensor:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: psensor
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install psensor
Package Details | |
| Package: | psensor |
| Version: | 1.1.5-1ubuntu1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://wpitchoune.net/psensor |
| Description: | display graphs for monitoring hardware temperature 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). |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/utils |
How to install psensor on Ubuntu 17.04?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 17.04 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If psensor is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L psensor' will give followin error.
Installing psensor:
After system update use the following command to install psensor:
sudo apt-get install psensor
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove psensor from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the psensor from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the psensor following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove psensor
Following command is used to remove the psensor package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove psensor
This will remove psensor and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing psensor with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge psensor
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove psensor
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with psensor package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.