From: Jean-Philippe Orsini Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:43:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: improve readme X-Git-Tag: v0.8.0.5~529 X-Git-Url: https://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb/?p=psensor.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=30d64fab2582a25f9ca7ae3543449b2dfaaf1a18 improve readme --- diff --git a/README b/README index 98cce31..d137cb6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ It can monitor: * the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp). * the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors). * the temperature of a remote computer. + * the cpu load. Alarms using Desktop Notification can be set to each sensor to notify high temperatures. @@ -47,11 +48,23 @@ For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the wheezy Debian package information are available at: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html +Compilation requires the following packages: + +gettext libgtk-3-dev libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev libsensors4-dev +help2man libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev +libgtop2-dev + Ubuntu ------ -For Ubuntu, the easy way to install Psensor and Psensor-server is to -use the dedicated PPA. +Notes about installation on Ubuntu is available at: +http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration + +Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe +repository of Ubuntu. + +For other Ubuntu releases, the easy way to install Psensor and +Psensor-server is to use the dedicated PPA. For the last stable version: sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor @@ -70,6 +83,18 @@ The manual installation of the psensor and psensor-server packages requires also the installation of psensor-common which contains the multiple languages support. +Centos 6 +-------- + +psensor can be compiled on Centos 6.0, by installing the following +packages: +gcc gtk2-devel GConf2-devel help2man gettext-devel libnotify-deval +lm_sensors-devel libgtop2-devel + +As microhttpd and json-c libraries are not available in the standard centos +repository, psensor-server cannot be compiled and the remote +monitoring feature of psensor will not be available. + Installation from source archive -------------------------------- @@ -115,24 +140,6 @@ instructions * Run 'psensor' -Ubuntu ------- - -Notes about installation on Ubuntu is available at: -http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration - -Centos 6 --------- - -psensor can be compiled on Centos 6.0, by installing the following -packages: -gcc gtk2-devel GConf2-devel help2man gettext-devel libnotify-deval -lm_sensors-devel libgtop2-devel - -As microhttpd and json-c libraries are not available in the standard centos -repository, psensor-server cannot be compiled and the remote -monitoring feature of psensor will not be available. - Contact ------- Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com