How to Install and Uninstall lm-sensors Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "lm-sensors" package

Please follow the guidance below to install lm-sensors on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall lm-sensors on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: lm-sensors
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 374
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.4.0-2
Depends: sed (>= 4.0.5-1), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), libc6 (>= 2.4), libsensors4 (>= 1:3.1.1), perl
Suggests: fancontrol, sensord, read-edid, i2c-tools
Filename: pool/universe/l/lm-sensors/lm-sensors_3.4.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 85288
MD5sum: a7a9b977bfe191d5bdfadd9659d97888
SHA1: 4335062a497f004b8a05fc0a7eb21c5d77fc1c72
SHA256: ecd9db6f14183e336707277def2a869d0825239a74f5dfebcffe3b73c0c43c07
Description-en: utilities 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 package contains programs to help you set up and read data from
lm-sensors.
Description-md5: 491418ae94ae096e9d6b05b0cf47c351
Homepage: http://www.lm-sensors.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop