HWCTL(1)

💖 HWCTL(1) ✨ General Commands Manual ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

hwctl — CLI tool to check hardware certification status 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hwctl

hwctl [-h | --help] [-V | --version] [--server URL]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so hwctl is the tool that checks your system's Ubuntu Hardware Certification status 🔥 it's giving "is my laptop officially certified" energy and it actually answers it 💀

hwctl checks whether your exact machine model, or a similar system, has been certified, and then shows you which Ubuntu releases that certification covers for it 🧚 if you want the deep lore on the whole certification program, it lives at https://ubuntu.com/certified 🦋

bestie, heads up: you usually need root privileges to run this one 🙈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — pulls up the help info and then exits 💖
• -V, --version — shows the version info and then exits ✨
• --server URL — points hwctl at a specific API server URL 🌈 this beats both the default value and the HW_API_URL environment variable, so it's the main character here 💅

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• HW_API_URL — this is the hardware-api server URL that hwctl uses for certification queries 🫶 if you don't set it, the default is https://hw.ubuntu.com 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

dmidecode(8), lshw(1) 🧚

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Written by Nadzeya Hutsko <nadzeya.hutsko@canonical.com> 🫶

🐛 BUGS 🐛

only the amd64 architecture is supported right now 😭

for info on open bugs, check https://github.com/canonical/hardware-api/issues/ 🙈

⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright © 2024 Canonical Ltd. 🌸

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bestie, that's the whole page 🎀 this one is from Ubuntu, dated December 5, 2024, and it's manual page HWCTL(1) 💖 now go check your hardware and slay ✨🫶