How To Install lshw-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw-gtk
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lshw-gtk
lshw-gtk is:
A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 systems, on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work) and AMD64.
This package provides lshw-gtk (the GTK+ version)
Package: lshw-gtk Architecture: amd64 Version: 02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Source: lshw Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Ghe Rivero [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1711 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) Recommends: menu, pciutils, usbutils Filename: pool/universe/l/lshw/lshw-gtk_02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 349764 MD5sum: dcda0492c4d30c537f6518d64f19c0b2 SHA1: 614a29eb9e4bb0f8ab5f561cbcebd00a26be8e89 SHA256: 8d3c2c0bffed0cf4d64457fe56d1980a5f7e09aaee6ecd3d76bbbe34026e76e0 Homepage: https://github.com/lyonel/lshw Description-en: graphical information about hardware configuration A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 systems, on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work) and AMD64.
This package provides lshw-gtk (the GTK+ version)
There are three methods to install lshw-gtk
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lshw-gtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lshw-gtk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lshw-gtk
Install lshw-gtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lshw-gtk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lshw-gtk
Install lshw-gtk Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lshw-gtk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lshw-gtk
How To Uninstall lshw-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lshw-gtk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lshw-gtk
Uninstall lshw-gtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lshw-gtk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lshw-gtk
Remove lshw-gtk Configurations and Data
To remove lshw-gtk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lshw-gtk
Remove lshw-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lshw-gtk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lshw-gtk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw-gtk
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.