Install latest/stable of dmidecode

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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Install using the command line

sudo snap install dmidecode-snap

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Dump computer's DMI table contents in a human-readable format

Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).

DMI data can be used to enable or disable specific portions of kernel code depending on the specific hardware. Thus, one use of dmidecode is for kernel developers to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source code when needed.

Beware that DMI data have proven to be too unreliable to be blindly trusted. Dmidecode does not scan your hardware, it only reports what the BIOS told it to.

How to use it

Simply run

dmidecode-snap.dmidecode

For a better comprehension of the tool, run

dmidecode-snap.dmidecode --help

Before using it

Remember to connect the hardware-observe interface to this snap. Just run

snap connect dmidecode-snap:hardware-observe

Details for dmidecode

License
  • GPL-2.0-only

Last updated
  • 19 October 2023 - latest/stable

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