How To Install hwinfo on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo on Rocky Linux 8. hwinfo is Hardware information tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hwinfo.

Install hwinfo on Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove hwinfo

hwinfo Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/eb6682ee139ca4c06074765d3b4d9b95866224
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/cbbf27ade0105ca96f7239070ffa9836fa806b
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/be90fe6a0606339eaff3468f3e95644ce8d823
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/38dfd5816b10daaa2ef851db3f0a8fd34beb92
/usr/lib64/libhd.so.21
/usr/lib64/libhd.so.21.47
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.