How To Install lshw on Fedora 34

lshw is Hardware lister

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lshw.

Install lshw 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 lshw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lshw

Install lshw 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 lshw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lshw

How To Uninstall lshw on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lshw

lshw Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/dcc4291c998d721f76a74bbca39e5d5cd8ce77
/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

lshw website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.