psensor-server command not found

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

Introduction

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

psensor-server: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: psensor-server: command not found

Solutions to psensor-server: command not found

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

In Ubuntu psensor-server is provided by psensor-server package.

psensor-server is:

Psensor server is an HTTP server providing a JSON Web service which can be used by Psensor GTK+ Application to monitor remotely the hardware sensors of a computer.

It can provide information about:

  • 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).
  • the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).

It is also possible to connect to Psensor server with a browser, a simple Web page is displaying the information.

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

sudo apt-get -y install psensor-server

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

You can also use apt command to install psensor-server.

sudo apt -y install psensor-server

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

sudo aptitude install psensor-server

Summary

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