How to Install and Uninstall fancontrol Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "fancontrol" package

This tutorial shows how to install fancontrol on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall fancontrol on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fancontrol
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fancontrol package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fancontrol
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 88
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno
Architecture: all
Source: lm-sensors
Version: 1:3.4.0-2
Replaces: lm-sensors (<< 1:3.1.1-6)
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~)
Conflicts: lm-sensors (<< 1:3.1.1-6)
Filename: pool/universe/l/lm-sensors/fancontrol_3.4.0-2_all.deb
Size: 20674
MD5sum: f9b84005f7fc041eac85e5ad96b56ccd
SHA1: 3cf934c96f422fc9d0aa944cc194c6e5bcbdf280
SHA256: dd1846665252853b3768084c853f3bf8a2eb87fe750b3283a626c61a04bb7769
Description-en: utility to control the fan speed
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 package contains a daemon that calculates fan speeds from temperatures
and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values. This is
useful when this feature is not provided by the BIOS or ACPI, which should
normally be the case on a laptop.
Description-md5: 40bbe60666b413905e3697f812762e1c
Homepage: http://www.lm-sensors.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu