Comments on: Check hardware information on Linux with “hwinfo” command https://www.binarytides.com/linux-hwinfo-command/ News, Technology, Entertainment and more Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Silver Moon https://www.binarytides.com/linux-hwinfo-command/comment-page-1/#comment-363943 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:59:28 +0000 http://www.binarytides.com/?p=6851#comment-363943 In reply to aselvan.

Thanks for the information.
Besides hwinfo there are other options like lshw, hardinfo and inxi for checking hardware details on linux.

]]> By: aselvan https://www.binarytides.com/linux-hwinfo-command/comment-page-1/#comment-66076 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:50:00 +0000 http://www.binarytides.com/?p=6851#comment-66076 hwinfo is obsolete and is no longer maintained (see below)… use lshw instead.

from source: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/amd64/hwinfo
Deleted on 2013-09-06 by Martin Pitt
uses deprecated and broken hal, unmaintained in Debian, obsolete, LP#1221254

]]> By: async2013 https://www.binarytides.com/linux-hwinfo-command/comment-page-1/#comment-66073 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:24:00 +0000 http://www.binarytides.com/?p=6851#comment-66073 sudo apt-get install hwinfo

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

Package hwinfo is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

E: Package ‘hwinfo’ has no installation candidate

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