sensors command not found

Introduction

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

sensors: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sensors: command not found

Solutions to sensors: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sensors is provided by lm-sensors package.

lm-sensors 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 programs to help you set up and read data from lm-sensors.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lm-sensors

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

You can also use apt command to install lm-sensors.

sudo apt -y install lm-sensors

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

sudo aptitude install lm-sensors

Summary

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