fancontrol software package provides utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fancontrol
fancontrol is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fancontrol package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fancontrol *
You will get with fancontrol package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | fancontrol |
| Version | 1:3.3.1-2ubuntu1 |
| Description | utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors |
| Sub Section | Utils |