How to Install and Uninstall hwinfo Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "hwinfo" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install hwinfo on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: hwinfo
Architecture: amd64
Version: 21.72-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastien Badia
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 90
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libhd21 (>= 21.0)
Filename: pool/universe/h/hwinfo/hwinfo_21.72-1_amd64.deb
Size: 17996
MD5sum: 40eb116438986c860309664023d96831
SHA1: a935e68fb4df46baaa0de83b250959c61eb8b9a8
SHA256: 2d0f5b3e12ba667661dd45fb77f0996208533c617b31222f4aa43b00efcc1bda
SHA512: 2aa6731a318a4faeff6ba535568f7a4244bb733bb117a150e2cad52411725004047c1d8110d2e88404c47f55db1fa3e456b581ff11a025dcf3a73118c3786a32
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