How To Install hwinfo on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hwinfo.
Install hwinfo on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install hwinfo
using yum
by running the following command:
Install hwinfo 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 hwinfo
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall hwinfo on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hwinfo
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.