How to Install and Uninstall libsensors5 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "libsensors5" package

This guide let you learn how to install libsensors5 on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libsensors5
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libsensors5" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libsensors5 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libsensors5
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libsensors5 package on Kali Linux

Package: libsensors5
Source: lm-sensors
Version: 1:3.6.0-9
Installed-Size: 88
Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libsensors-config, libc6 (>= 2.33)
Suggests: lm-sensors
Size: 34624
SHA256: 32c6525bdf409f1b7e70a3ab3644e0e28148593a36ca510a795dfc28d5716841
SHA1: 132a8eccd53eca11c9587690372fd95a01f9cf78
MD5sum: b703766c0a155e353dc775ecb5cd2dff
Description: library to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
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.
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This library is only functional with a Linux kernel, it is provided on
non-Linux systems for portability reasons only.
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This package contains a shared library for querying lm-sensors.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/lm_sensors
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lm-sensors/libsensors5_3.6.0-9_amd64.deb