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Install latest/stable of Hardware Probe (hw-probe)

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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Install using the command line

sudo snap install hw-probe

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Details for Hardware Probe (hw-probe)

License

  • BSD-2-Clause

Last updated

  • 3 May 2025 - latest/stable
  • 3 May 2025 - latest/edge

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Check operability of computer hardware and find drivers

A tool to probe for hardware, check operability and find drivers with the help of Linux Hardware Database.

Probe — is a snapshot of your computer hardware state. The tool checks operability of devices by analysis of logs and returns a permanent url to view the probe of the computer:

 hw-probe -all -upload

If some of your hardware devices does not work due to a missed driver then the tool will suggest a proper Linux kernel version according to the LKDDb or third-party drivers.

Enable all interfaces in Permissions and run as root if you want to check health of all your hard drives.


Install Hardware Probe (hw-probe) on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation.


Where people are using Hardware Probe (hw-probe)

Users by distribution (log)

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 25.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 25.04
Zorin OS 17
Linux Mint 22.2
Manjaro
KDE Neon 24.04
Zorin OS 18
Debian 12
Debian 13
Fedora 43
Linux Mint 21.3