How to Install and Uninstall hwinfo Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "hwinfo" package

Please follow the steps below to install hwinfo on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hwinfo
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "hwinfo" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall hwinfo on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                hwinfo
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the hwinfo package on Kali Linux

Package: hwinfo
Source: hwinfo (21.82-1)
Version: 21.82-1+b1
Installed-Size: 77
Maintainer: Sebastien Badia
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libhd21 (>= 21.0)
Size: 28616
SHA256: 1c6cedd58478c1f005ec1d688e26c7f044ec42c0b8e29e7b63f05d46c3bd7d3c
SHA1: 90ac871cf41d7f0a3d7ecd61d92a3472a8d066e0
MD5sum: 86235268634175cb384d7401f39b6ab9
Description: Hardware identification system
hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
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In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when
detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
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hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among
others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and
partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe,
isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.
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This package does not include the binaries hwscan, hwscand and hwscanqueue. If
you think one or more of these should be included in the package, please
contact the maintainer at [email protected].
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo
Tag: admin::hardware, hardware::detection, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::scanning
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/h/hwinfo/hwinfo_21.82-1+b1_amd64.deb