How To Install psensor 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 psensor on Ubuntu.

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. 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

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, 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 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

Dependencies

psensor have the following dependencies:

References

psensor website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install psensor package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.