How To Install dmidecode on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmidecode
on CentOS 7.
What is dmidecode
dmidecode reports information about x86 & ia64 hardware as described in the system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dmidecode
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmidecode.
Install dmidecode on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dmidecode
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dmidecode on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dmidecode
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dmidecode on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dmidecode
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmidecode
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.