update-pciids(8)

update-pciids8

Download new version of the pci id list

Usage

update-pciids [-q]

Overview

update-pciids fetches the current version of the pci.ids file from the primary distribution site and installs it.

This utility requires curl, wget or lynx to be installed. If gzip or bzip2 are available, it automatically downloads the compressed version of the list.

Options

-q

Be quiet and do not report anything except errors.

Files

/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids

Here we install the new list.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9–10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

-q since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Author

The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <[email protected]>.

From pciutils 3.15.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.