I²C Tools for Linux

The I²C tools that used to be part of the lm-sensors package have been split to a separate package. The rationale for that move is that not all hardware monitoring chips are I²C devices, and not all I²C devices are hardware monitoring chips, so having everything in a single package was confusing and impractical.

The i2c-tools package contains a heterogeneous set of I²C tools for Linux: a bus probing tool, a chip dumper, register-level SMBus access helpers, EEPROM decoding scripts, EEPROM programming tools, and a python module for SMBus access.

All versions of Linux are supported, as long as I²C support is included in the kernel.

Install I²C Tools :

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install i2c-tools
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Suggested packages:
  libi2c-dev python-smbus
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  i2c-tools
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