How To Install lshw on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw on Rocky Linux 8. lshw is Hardware lister

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lshw

lshw is a small tool to provide detailed informaton 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 and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work). Information can be output in plain text, XML or HTML.

We can use yum or dnf to install lshw on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lshw.

Install lshw on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install lshw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lshw

Install lshw on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install lshw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lshw

How To Uninstall lshw on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lshw package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lshw

lshw Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/aa56bc7af01b3a80e97f2ff8df70c50853e6a3
/usr/sbin/lshw
/usr/share/doc/lshw
/usr/share/doc/lshw/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/lshw
/usr/share/licenses/lshw/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lshw.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.