"lshw -version" returns empty string on focal
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lshw (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Installed Ubuntu 20.04 focal beta (I think the same applies to Eoan as well) lshw -version output is empty:
ubuntu@ob104:~$ sudo lshw -version
ubuntu@ob104:~$ sudo apt-cache show lshw
Package: lshw
Architecture: amd64
Version: 02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-
Bugs: https:/
Installed-Size: 857
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Recommends: pciutils, usbutils
Filename: pool/main/
Size: 270368
MD5sum: b4a3a32f681241f
SHA1: ea0e3a645884f9c
SHA256: 2cfc5cee2f59f1e
Homepage: https:/
Description-en: information about hardware configuration
A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware
configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory
configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version
and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86
systems, on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work) and AMD64.
.
Information can be output in plain text, HTML or XML.
Description-md5: 5bbbb48f52cc670
Task: standard
ubuntu@ob104:~$ which lshw
/usr/bin/lshw
ubuntu@ob104:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/lshw
lshw: /usr/bin/lshw