How To Install fancontrol on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fancontrol on Kali Linux.

What is fancontrol

fancontrol is:

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.

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.

There are three methods to install fancontrol on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fancontrol Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fancontrol using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fancontrol

Install fancontrol Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fancontrol using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fancontrol

Install fancontrol Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fancontrol using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fancontrol

How To Uninstall fancontrol on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fancontrol package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fancontrol

Uninstall fancontrol And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fancontrol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fancontrol

Remove fancontrol Configurations and Data

To remove fancontrol configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fancontrol

Remove fancontrol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fancontrol configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fancontrol

Dependencies

fancontrol have the following dependencies:

• init-system-helpers
• lsb-base

References

• fancontrol website

Summary

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