psensor command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix psensor command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

psensor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: psensor: command not found

Solutions to psensor: command not found

How To Fix psensor: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu psensor is provided by psensor package.

psensor is:

Psensor is a GTK+ application for monitoring hardware sensors, including temperatures and fan speeds.

It displays a curve for each sensor, alerts user using Desktop Notification and Application Indicator when a temperature is too high.

It can monitor:

  • the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors).
  • the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
  • the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or atasmart lib).
  • the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
  • the sensors of a remote computer (using psensor-server).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install psensor

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install psensor.

sudo apt -y install psensor

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install psensor

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix psensor command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.