install lshw

[David Timms]

kalinix wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 09:36 +0000, Thufir wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:27:44 +0930, Tim wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> [root at localhost ~]# yum -y install lshw Loading "installonlyn" plugin
...
> I didn't see any lshw package neither on F7, atrpms, livna or freshrpms.
> The only repositories  I saw lshw was DAG and/or RPMForge, but there was
> only up to FC4-FC5.
> 
> The meaning of this is if you want lshw installed you may have to go to
> their site (http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter) download the
> source and compile it by yourself. Or (but I cannot guarantee it will
> work) go to DAG/RPMForge site, download the src.rpm and rebuild the rpm
> from source.
In fact this was also recently mentioned on fedora-devel, with a link to 
the bugzilla review request. However, it seems that the packager may 
need assistance / possibly take over the development of that package.

If you have some rpm packaging skills, take a look at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229591

DaveT.