How to Install and Uninstall hwinfo Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "hwinfo" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install hwinfo on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Learn how to uninstall hwinfo on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: hwinfo
Architecture: amd64
Version: 21.70-1build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastien Badia
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 89
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libhd21 (>= 21.0)
Filename: pool/universe/h/hwinfo/hwinfo_21.70-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 18040
MD5sum: a78fe88dde437d55db444f5fae6a0ce8
SHA1: 5f82184c5a2d06894f28d1a8d522c379b461d8c1
SHA256: 85ae07e89cc26a6ebb33e6d1602998f63553525246dca3cb102bacec90c085ad
SHA512: 135d8465895fd15b296cbc3a79f7aca21686929155e301754d926adcf5c28719616a5f5b342a295bc4440a674f3f27d565cdd70d70dad454c836a1d2cc65bdfb
Homepage: https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo
Description-en: 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: 970442d853c387b8e2c5e7373c497270