Install Cyme USB Devices Viewer on Ubuntu 24.04

Cyme is a command line tool for displaying system USB buses and devices. It is a modern and cross-platform tool that offers similar functionality like lsusb command. This tutorial demonstrates how to install Cyme USB devices viewer on Ubuntu 24.04.

Install Cyme

Check the current Cyme version from its GitHub repository and assign it to a variable:

CYME_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/tuna-f1sh/cyme/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')

Use the identified version to download the Cyme archive:

wget -qO cyme.tar.gz https://github.com/tuna-f1sh/cyme/releases/latest/download/cyme-v$CYME_VERSION-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

Create temporary directory and extract a tar.gz file:

mkdir cyme-temp

tar xf cyme.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C cyme-temp

Move executable to /usr/local/bin directory:

sudo mv cyme-temp/cyme /usr/local/bin

The following command can be used to check Cyme version:

cyme --version

Remove no longer needed file and directory:

rm -rf cyme.tar.gz cyme-temp

Testing Cyme

To use Cyme, simply run it from the command line:

cyme --headings --tree --icon never

It will display detailed information about the USB devices. Output example:

          Name                 HostController         
● EHCI Host Controller Linux 6.8.0-41-generic ehci_hcd
└──   #   VID    PID       Name            Serial       
└──○   2 0x0781 0x5567 Cruzer Blade 20033528810A1C50A7B4

Uninstall Cyme

To uninstall Cyme, delete the associated file:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/cyme