How To Install lshw on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: standard
Package: lshw Architecture: amd64 Version: 02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2 Priority: standard Section: utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Ghe Rivero [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 857 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) Recommends: pciutils, usbutils Filename: pool/main/l/lshw/lshw_02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 270368 MD5sum: b4a3a32f681241f9d6bd200d1b6f0be0 SHA1: ea0e3a645884f9cd65ea97c7fbf64cf308eb465c SHA256: 2cfc5cee2f59f1e90facfca904d02dcab8b20e162a62fe9fac036c109a3e9953 Homepage: https://github.com/lyonel/lshw Description-en: information about hardware configuration 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. Task: standard
There are three methods to install lshw on Ubuntu 20.04. 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.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lshw using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lshw
Install lshw Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lshw using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lshw
Install lshw Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lshw using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lshw
How To Uninstall lshw on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lshw package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lshw
Uninstall lshw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lshw and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lshw
Remove lshw Configurations and Data
To remove lshw configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lshw
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:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lshw
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lshw package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.