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I want to install sensors-applet onto my Ubuntu 12.04 computer. The instructions on this (and other) webpages says to enter this command in a command terminal:

sudo apt-get install sensors-applet

This is a gnome applet and gnome isn't exactly obscure. Why can sensors-applet package not be found?

Before you say "no", note that I was able to execute "gnome-panel" to add a bar/panel along the bottom of my desktop, add 8 cpu-frequency applets to the bar (one per CPU core), and add gnome-panel to my startup applications. So I've already done the basics, and believe all I need now is to be able to download and install the sensors-applet to have that temperature applet available on the panel too. See here.

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honestann
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The sensors-applet package is not available in the 12.04 repositories. As a matter of fact, it is not even in 11.10.

The last release that had it was 11.04.

jokerdino
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for 11.10 and earlier

The GNOME2 package for sensors-applet Install sensors-applet is available for the following Ubuntu versions only:

for 12.04

Sensors applet 3.0. is not available from the 12.04 LTS repositories. You may be able to install from e.g. the following ppa (untested by me):

ppa:darxus/sensors-applet

Alternatively you can always download the source from GNOME to compile and install from there.

for 12.10 and later

The GNOME3 version of sensors-applet Install sensors-applet is is at present only available from the Ubuntu repositories for Ubuntu >= 12.10. Ubuntu 12.04 is not supported.

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Takkat
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If you are using Ubuntu 12.04, this package is no longer available - unfortunately -. There might be an equivalent indicator however. There is a nice lice of indicators here with instructions on how to install them. Many of these are sensor related and might cover your needs. This might not be the answer you're looking for, but to be clear, sensors-applet is deprecated and not supported at all.

If you must absolutely have this applet, you may have to try and install the MATE desktop, though this is really overkill IMO.

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Dean Howell
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I assume you are using ubuntu 12.04 or 11.10. For this sensors-applet does not exist.

See here http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=sensors-applet

mbs
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The package sensors-applet is only for Gnome2 and hence not available for Ubuntu after 11.04.

Have a look at What Application Indicators are available? to find an alternative.

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Florian Diesch
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I think that package is not available: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/sensors-applet

You can use System Monitor instead if you want something similar:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:indicator-multiload/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload

Refer to this question for more such indicators:

What Application Indicators are available?

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Bharadwaj Srigiriraju
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