How to Install and Uninstall lm-sensors Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: November 05,2024

You can also install and uninstall the lm-sensors on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "lm-sensors" package

Please follow the steps below to install lm-sensors on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "lm-sensors" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall lm-sensors on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                lm-sensors
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lm-sensors package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: lm-sensors
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.6.0-7ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 395
Depends: sed (>= 4.0.5-1), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), libc6 (>= 2.34), libsensors5 (>= 1:3.5.0), perl:any
Suggests: fancontrol, read-edid, i2c-tools
Filename: pool/universe/l/lm-sensors/lm-sensors_3.6.0-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 90980
MD5sum: 72ce6ff9b1a535d78b063ee2738b002a
SHA1: 5fa31e27f5dec209ecaa0038d3336a6fbebe15cc
SHA256: 1c8eed9596195cb8712b78e80dd6817084cdb11b1b3103b79a01c36bbb27cf89
SHA512: 195257803f644f9571fc76aa028483344a720920d1523fbf86d0714bc7aaca7d7cafabe1885c89ade3363aaceb0aaeebb0cf227a060986a8c17f9772c0272ca6
Homepage: https://hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/lm_sensors
Description: utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
Description-md5: 491418ae94ae096e9d6b05b0cf47c351
Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi