How To Install libsensors5 on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors5 on Ubuntu.
What is libsensors5
libsensors5 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 library is only functional with a Linux kernel, it is provided on non-Linux systems for portability reasons only.
This package contains a shared library for querying lm-sensors.
There are three methods to install libsensors5 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsensors5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsensors5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsensors5
Install libsensors5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsensors5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsensors5
Install libsensors5 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 libsensors5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsensors5
How To Uninstall libsensors5 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libsensors5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsensors5
Uninstall libsensors5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsensors5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsensors5
Remove libsensors5 Configurations and Data
To remove libsensors5 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsensors5
Remove libsensors5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsensors5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsensors5
Dependencies
libsensors5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsensors5 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.