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Quick installation of hwinfo:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: hwinfo
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install hwinfo
Package Details | |
| Package: | hwinfo |
| Version: | 16.0-2.1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | Hardware identification system hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux. . In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor. . hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe, isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp. . This package does not include the binaries hwscan, hwscand and hwscanqueue. If you think one or more of these should be included in the package, please contact the maintainer at [email protected]. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/admin |
How to install hwinfo on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If hwinfo is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L hwinfo' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L hwinfo Package `hwinfo' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing hwinfo:
After system update use the following command to install hwinfo:
sudo apt-get install hwinfo
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove hwinfo from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the hwinfo from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the hwinfo following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove hwinfo
Following command is used to remove the hwinfo package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove hwinfo
This will remove hwinfo and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing hwinfo with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge hwinfo
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove hwinfo
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with hwinfo package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
