How to monitor CPU temperature

Install a gnome applet to monitor cpu temp.

Go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager

Click Search, and type in sensors-applet, click in the box next to it, and check the appropriate boxes, then make another search for lm-sensors, and check it for installation. Then click Apply

Once this is done, right-click on the panel > Add to panel > add the Hardware Sensors Monitor

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6 comments to How to monitor CPU temperature

  • Awesome… thanks. Couldn’t remember the name of this applet and found this page via google. Rock on.

  • john

    I get “no sensors enabled!” Do you have any hints to solve that problem? Thanks.

  • MJBoa

    You need to install the lm-sensors package.

  • eli

    Indeed you do. Thanks for the help MJ.

  • Kevin

    Installed everythin, but says “No Sensors” detected for my Dell OptiPlex GX280

    Ideas ?

  • Ram

    yo. had to run

    sudo detect-sensors

    let it find what modules need loading, and add them to /etc/modules.

    it has to do some probing, but that didn’t result in a crash for me.

    it offers to add the modules to “/etc/modules” at the end. this is convenient. you can then

    sudo modprobe your_module_name_here

    for each module, or just reboot.

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