How To Install hwinfo on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo in Fedora 36. hwinfo is Hardware information tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo on Fedora 36.

What is hwinfo

hwinfo is to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

We can use yum or dnf to install hwinfo on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hwinfo.

Install hwinfo on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install hwinfo

Install hwinfo on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install hwinfo

How To Uninstall hwinfo on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove hwinfo

hwinfo Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/cce8fc66449f854901b11d64490be2485d01db
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/5a76a2ddce6ab8bcf0ec1c4fb2008808d54bcc
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/ebd8b500a1d07c499ea1330c2a8268aaadf0af
/usr/sbin/check_hd
/usr/sbin/convert_hd
/usr/sbin/getsysinfo
/usr/sbin/hwinfo
/usr/sbin/mk_isdnhwdb
/usr/share/doc/hwinfo
/usr/share/doc/hwinfo/MAINTAINER
/usr/share/doc/hwinfo/README-hwprobe.md
/usr/share/doc/hwinfo/README-legacy.md
/usr/share/doc/hwinfo/README.md
/usr/share/doc/hwinfo/specifications.md
/usr/share/hwinfo
/usr/share/hwinfo/ISDN.CDB.hwdb
/usr/share/hwinfo/ISDN.CDB.txt
/usr/share/licenses/hwinfo
/usr/share/licenses/hwinfo/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).