Background
It is quite useful to know information regarding your hardware especially the temperature.
Lm-sensors is the low level driver and service that connects to the motherboard components capable of monitoring temperatures and voltages. Lm-sensors collects the data over the reevant subsystem, an I2C interface.
XSensors is the front-end to display the data collected by Lm-sensors
Hardware Prerequisites.
For more information on hardware support by lm_sensors, please visit the Device lm-sensors wiki
Install Prerequisites and XSensors
Step 1: Install lm_sensors package
yum install lm_sensors lm_sensors-devel
Step 2: Install gtk2
yum install gtk+
Step 3: Download the xsensors from the http//linuxhardware.org). The current version at this point in writing is xsensors-0.70.
*Ensure you have GNU compilers installed so that you can compile the program
tar -zxvf xsensors-0.70.tar.gz
cd xsensors-0.70
./configure
make
make install
