Install hwinfo on Raspberry Pi

The hwinfo is a command line tool that can be used to get details about various hardware components on a system. It provides information about CPU, RAM, disks, network interfaces, USB controllers, etc. The hwinfo was developed for openSUSE but lately was adapted for other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, etc. The hwinfo is also available on the Raspberry Pi OS.

This tutorial demonstrates how to install hwinfo on Raspberry Pi.

Use SSH to connect to Raspberry Pi. Then run these commands to update the package lists and install hwinfo:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y hwinfo

Once the installation is complete, you can check version of the hwinfo with command:

hwinfo --version

Now run the hwinfo command without any arguments to get detailed information about all hardware components:

hwinfo

The same result is provided with --all option as well:

hwinfo --all

Use --short option to get brief information about the hardware components:

hwinfo --short

The hwinfo also allows to display information for specific hardware component:

hwinfo --cpu
hwinfo --memory
hwinfo --disk
hwinfo --network
hwinfo --usb

If hwinfo is no longer needed, you can remove it and related dependencies with command:

sudo apt purge --autoremove -y hwinfo