Topic: lshw (list hardware) install instructions for sme version 8

[purvis]

instructions to install lshw to view hardware on smeserver 8.??
press q to quit the fileviewer program "less"

less commands
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e, j, Down, or Enter     move forward one line
y, k, or Up    move backward one line
f, Space, or Page Down    move forward one page
b, or Page Up    move backward one page
/characters    search forward in the file for lines containing the specified characters
n    repeat the previous search
e file_name    examine a new file
:n    examine the next file
:p    examine the previous file
h, or ?    display help
q    quit
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cd /
mkdir /temp
cd /temp
wget http://packages.sw.be/lshw/lshw-2.15-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum localinstall  lshw-2.15-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum info lshw
lshw > lshw.prn
less lshw.prn
rm -f lshw.prn

you can also delete the rpm file when done
rm -f lshw-2.15-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

[CharlieBrady]

cd /
mkdir /temp
cd /temp
wget http://packages.sw.be/lshw/lshw-2.15-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum localinstall  lshw-2.15-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Or:

yum --enablerepo=dag install lshw

Above will only work if you have the 'dag' repository configured in your yum configuration. You can use this instead:

rpm -Uhv http://pkgs.repoforge.org/lshw/lshw-2.13-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

lshw > lshw.prn
less lshw.prn
rm -f lshw.prn

Or:

lswh | less

you can also delete the rpm file when done
rm -f lshw-2.15-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Not necessary if you use "yum install" as mentioned above.

[purvis]

thanks Charlie
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