How To Install lshw on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw
on Kali Linux.
What is lshw
lshw is:
A small tool to provide detailed information 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, on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work) and AMD64.
Information can be output in plain text, HTML or XML.
There are three methods to install lshw
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lshw Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install lshw
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install lshw Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install lshw
using apt
by running the following command:
Install lshw Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install lshw
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lshw on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lshw
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall lshw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lshw
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove lshw Configurations and Data
To remove lshw
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove lshw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lshw
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
lshw have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.