lm-sensors software package provides utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
lm-sensors is installed in your system.
Make ensure the lm-sensors package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep lm-sensors *
You will get with lm-sensors package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | lm-sensors |
| Version | 1:3.3.4-2ubuntu1 |
| Description | utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors |
| Sub Section | Utils |