8. System administration commands (usually only for root)

update-pciids

Section: The PCI Utilities (8)
Updated: 31 May 2020
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NAME

update-pciids - download new version of the PCI ID list

SYNOPSIS

update-pciids [-q]

DESCRIPTION

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/misc/pci.ids: Here we install the new list.

AUTHOR

The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>.

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