1. Introduction
-Psensor is a graphical hardware monitoring application for Linux.
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Alerts are using Desktop Notification and a specific GTK+ status icon.
For Ubuntu users, Psensor is providing an Application Indicator which turns -red under alert and a menu for quickly check all sensors.
It is possible to monitor remotely a computer:
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-start psensor-server on the remote computer. -
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-start psensor using: psensor --url=http://hostname:3131. -
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psensor-server is a minimal Web server, a Web browser can be used to -monitor the remote computer by opening the URL: -http://hostname:3131.
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-psensor-server does not provide any way to restrict the connection -to the HTTP server, worst, no effort has been made against malicious -HTTP attacks. You should make the psensor-server port available -only to a network or computer you trust by using the usual network -security tools of the system (for example: -iptables). | -
2. Installation Using Distribution Packages
-2.1. Debian
-For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the -Wheezy, unstable and testing repositories.
Debian package information is available at: -http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html.
To do the installation:
sudo apt-get install psensor psensor-server-
2.2. Ubuntu
-Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe -repository of Ubuntu.
To install psensor or psensor-server:
sudo apt-get install psensor -sudo apt-get install psensor-server-
Or search them in the Ubuntu Software Center.
For other Ubuntu releases or user the more recent release, the easiest -way is to use the dedicated PPA.
Last stable version:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor -sudo apt-get update -sudo apt-get install psensor -sudo apt-get install psensor-server-
Last development version which should not contain major bugs:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-unstable -sudo apt-get update -sudo apt-get install psensor -sudo apt-get install psensor-server-
Daily trunk build which may contain major bugs and partialy -implemented features:
sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor-daily-trunk -sudo apt-get update -sudo apt-get install psensor -sudo apt-get install psensor-server-
3. Installation From Source Archive
-psensor and psensor-server can be compiled and installed on any -modern GNU/Linux distribution.
3.1. Compilation Prerequisites
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For Debian 7.0:
sudo apt-get install asciidoc cppcheck gcc gettext libgtk-3-dev -libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev libsensors4-dev help2man -libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libgtop2-dev -libatasmart-dev make-
For Fedora 17:
sudo yum install gcc gtk3-devel GConf2-devel lm_sensors-devel cppcheck -libatasmart-devel libcurl-devel json-c-devel libmicrohttpd-devel -help2man libnotify-devel libgtop2-devel make-
For Ubuntu 12.04:
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake asciidoc cppcheck gcc gettext -autopoint libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev libsensors4-dev -help2man libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev -libgtop2-dev make perl libunity-dev libgtop2-dev libappindicator-dev -nvidia-settings-
3.2. Compilation and Installation Steps
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-download the source archive from: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files -
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-Start the sensor detection script: sensors-detect and follows the -instructions. Reboot or activate the kernel modules which have -been found. -
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3.3. ATI/AMD GPU Support
-When the OpenSource ATI driver is used, the monitoring -information is available throw lm-sensors and does not require the -following instructions.
When the proprietary ATI driver(Catalyst) is used, the build is -requiring an additional library.
Download the -ATI ADL SDK -and extracts the files of the archive into a directory [dir].
Replace the step 7. of the above section by ./configure ---with-libatiadl=[dir] where [dir] must be the directory where you -have extracted the ATI ADL SDK. Other steps are indentical.
4. Contact
-Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com.
Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor