GUI to Check Hardware Information in Linux - HardInfo


HardInfo (in short for “hardware information“) is a system profiler and benchmark graphical tool for Linux systems, that is able to gather information from both hardware and some software and organise it in an easy to use GUI tool


Installing HardInfo

HardInfo is available to install in all major Linux distributions from the default repository.

Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint

sudo apt install hardinfo


Fedora/CentOS Linux

# dnf install glib-devel gtk+-devel zlib-devel libsoup-devel
$ cd Downloads
$ git clone https://github.com/lpereira/hardinfo.git
$ cd hardinfo
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
# make install

Arch and Manjaro Linux

sudo pacman -S hardinfo

OpenSUSE

sudo zypper in hardinfo



How to open Hardinfo on your computer

It’s a graphical application, and it should be categorised under System by name System Profiler and Benchmark in your distribution’s launcher.



It can also be used to generated HTML reports.








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