Howto Get your System information with Sysinfo
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-- General information: Kernel version, Distribution release,Hostname/domainname, some important software versions.
-- CPU information: Name/vendor, Frequency, L2 Cache, model/family/stepping.
-- Memory information: Total, Free, Cached, Active/inactive, Swap.
-- IDE information: Disks CD/DVD-roms, Model, Capacity, Cache.
-- Filesystem information: Filesystem disk space usage(mounted partitions).
-- Hardware information: Motherboard chipset, IDE interface, VGA contoller,
Multimedia controllers(sound cards), Ethernet cards.
-- USB information: USB controllers.
-- NVIDIA information: Graphic card model, AGP rate, Fast writes/SBA, Driver
version. (accelerated linux driver needed)
-- Other information: Sound card details, Input devices, Screen resolution.
Install sysinfo in Ubuntu
Install sysinfo using the following command
sudo aptitude install sysinfo
This will complete the installation.
Using Sysinfo
If yo want to open go to Applications--->System Tools--->Sysinfo
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
You need to select on your left panel which information you want to see now we will see one by one first one is System details
CPU Details
Memory Details
Storage Details
Hardware Details you can choose different options from dropdown menu
Motherboard details
Graphic card Details
Network Details
Sysinfo version details
Awesome tool, thanks for the info!
Try hardinfo (GUI based) or lshw (command line) – both are much more comprehensive than sysinfo, both in Ubuntu universe repository.
Sysinfo could be improved by adding a feature that shows exactly how much RAM the Graphics card has…
i use under ubuntu 8.0.4 sudo aptitude install sysinfo and I am getting
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “sysinfo”
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
@Bill
You need to make sure you have enabled universe and multiverse repositories.If you don’t have enabled use this guide
Thank you admin.That was it
I was using LiveCd and 2 times i managed to use sysinfo without doing anything with repositories.Now its ok
Thanks for help. Also from Richard.
sysinfo uses MONO, the 3rd party proprietaryish app from Novell based on M$’s .NET. I’d steer clear of MONO and this app.
hardinfo is smaller and provides at least the same info.
Thanks!
Installed sysinfo on Super OS (Ubuntu 9.10 modded) and I wasn’t paying attention – realised too late that it wanted to remove 70 packages! Very annoying. I’m new to linux, but now I’ll know to pay more attention.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sysinfo
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alien{u} amrnb{u} amrwb{u} amsn{u} amsn-data{u} app-runner{u}
bsd-mailx{u} compizconfig-settings-manager{u} cvs{u} debhelper{u}
disable-system-beep{u} fastjar{u} gettext{u} gufw{u} html2text{u}
intltool-debian{u} jarwrapper{u} java-common{u} kdebase-plasma{u}
kdelibs{u} libamrnb3{u} libamrwb3{u} libdvdcss2{u} libkonq5{u}
libkonq5-templates{u} libmail-sendmail-perl{u} libpolkit-dbus2{u}
libpolkit-gnome0{u} libpolkit-grant2{u} libpolkit2{u} libqimageblitz4{u}
libqt4-assistant{u} libqt4-gui{u} librpm0{u} librpmbuild0{u} librpmio0{u}
libsnack2-alsa{u} libsys-hostname-long-perl{u} lsb{u} lsb-core{u}
lsb-cxx{u} lsb-desktop{u} lsb-graphics{u} m4{u} mailx{u} ncurses-term{u}
ndisgtk{u} ndiswrapper-common{u} ndiswrapper-utils-1.9{u}
odbcinst1debian1{u} pax{u} plasma-widget-folderview{u} po-debconf{u}
policykit{u} policykit-gnome{u} python-compizconfig{u} realpath{u}
realplay{u} rpm{u} runz{u} skype{u} sun-java6-bin{u} sun-java6-jre{u}
sun-java6-plugin{u} super-os-installer{u} tcl-tls{u} tcl8.5{u} tk8.5{u}
ubuntu-restricted-extras{u} unixodbc{u}
Hello!
Great info, and awesome tool, thanks!
Lovely! 😀 Thanks! ^^
Instead you can use sudo dmidecode
I installed Sysinfo onto my Ubuntu 11.10 machine, ran it, and found only a pittance of information about my unit. Nothing at all like shown here (which is what I was wanting)Did I do something wrong when installing or install the wrong program? Sure would like to know what to do about it! Thanks: