Psensor Replacement

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PublicLewdness
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A rejoint: 03/15/2020

To monitor CPU and GPU temps I usually use Psensor but on Trisquel I can't get it to install. On both my Trisquel 8.0 and 9.0 systems when I try to install Psensor from the Synaptic package manager I get an error about how it depends on libxnvctrl0 but that is not installable. When I tried to install that library from terminal it is uanble to.

Unless anyone knows of a way around that I was hoping someone could suggest a replacement program that does work on Trisquel ?

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A rejoint: 07/24/2010

That library is for configuring NVidia's proprietary video drivers. It apparently does not depend on the proprietary driver. And it is apparently free software (distributed under the GPL), unlike the driver itself: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-settings/master/COPYING

The library was apparently deemed "only useful with nonfree software": https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#nvidia-xconfig_nvidia-settings

If all those "appearances" happen to be more than appearances (anybody?), then installing the library does not raise any freedom issue and you could try to download and install the package on https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libxnvctrl0 (for Trisquel 8) or on https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic-updates/libxnvctrl0 (for Trisquel 9) and then try again to install Psensor. If that works, you could then file an issue on https://trisquel.info/project/issues (what may actually end up in a developer explaining there is a freedom issue, despite the appearances).