Install lshw on Ubuntu 22.04

The lshw is a command line tool for displaying detailed information about hardware components on a system. The tool enables to view details about CPU, RAM, network interfaces, USB controllers, etc. This tutorial shows how to install lshw on Ubuntu 22.04.

Install lshw

Run command to update the package lists:

sudo apt update

Install lshw:

sudo apt install -y lshw

Testing lshw

Run the lshw command without any arguments, to get detailed information about all hardware components.

lshw

The -short option lets to get brief information about the hardware components.

sudo lshw -short

Output example:

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H/W path           Device      Class          Description
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                               system         VMware Virtual Platform
/0                             bus            440BX Desktop Reference Platform
/0/0                           memory         86KiB BIOS
/0/1                           processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
/0/1/0                         memory         16KiB L1 cache
...

Using -class option, possible to output information for specific hardware component:

sudo lshw -class processor

sudo lshw -class memory

sudo lshw -class network

sudo lshw -class bus

Uninstall lshw

If you decided to completely remove lshw, run the following command:

sudo apt purge --autoremove -y lshw