hw-probe command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

hw-probe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hw-probe: command not found

Solutions to hw-probe: command not found

How To Fix hw-probe: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu hw-probe is provided by hw-probe package.

hw-probe is:

A tool to check operability of computer hardware and upload result to the Linux hardware database.

Probe — is a snapshot of your computer’s hardware state and system logs. The tool returns a permanent URL to view the probe of the computer.

The tool is intended to simplify collecting of logs necessary for investigating hardware related problems. Just ask user to run one simple command to collect all the system logs at once:

 sudo hw-probe -all -upload

By creating probes you contribute to the HDD/SSD Real-Life Reliability Test study: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install hw-probe

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install hw-probe.

sudo apt -y install hw-probe

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install hw-probe

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix hw-probe command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.