How To Install hwdata on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwdata on Fedora 34.
What is hwdata
hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.ids and usb.ids databases.
We can use yum or dnf to install hwdata on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hwdata.
Install hwdata on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install hwdata using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hwdata
Install hwdata on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install hwdata using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hwdata
How To Uninstall hwdata on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the hwdata package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hwdata
hwdata Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/dist-blacklist.conf
/usr/share/doc/hwdata
/usr/share/doc/hwdata/LICENSE
/usr/share/hwdata
/usr/share/hwdata/iab.txt
/usr/share/hwdata/oui.txt
/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids
/usr/share/hwdata/pnp.ids
/usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids
/usr/share/licenses/hwdata
/usr/share/licenses/hwdata/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwdata on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.