How to Install and Uninstall hwinfo Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "hwinfo" package

Please follow the instructions below to install hwinfo on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall hwinfo on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: hwinfo
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 71
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastien Badia
Architecture: amd64
Version: 21.23-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libhd21 (>= 21.0)
Filename: pool/universe/h/hwinfo/hwinfo_21.23-1_amd64.deb
Size: 16812
MD5sum: 5d2e2068e6d6ba63c10cce26f16ffcf8
SHA1: 18f6f8831a8d5581048ef06df64367187ff96a1e
SHA256: e589304b9df811b8b64e71f5a0b78ee2dc5fdb19053ff43be31ee2250dcdd21f
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
Homepage: https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu