How to Install fancontrol in Ubuntu 18.04



Install fancontrol by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install fancontrol

Description:

utility to control the fan speed

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 a daemon that calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values. This is useful when this feature is not provided by the BIOS or ACPI, which should normally be the case on a laptop.

Homepage: http://www.lm-sensors.org

Version: 1:3.4.0-4

Section: universe/utils