update-pciids(8)

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version 3.15.0 · 10 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44

💅 update-pciids(8) — The PCI Utilities, section 8 🎀

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about update-pciids — it's giving "glow-up for your PCI ID list" and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

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

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

update-pciids [-q]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like, update-pciids goes and fetches the current version of the pci.ids file from the primary distribution site, and then installs it. That's it. That's the whole job. Main character behaviour, no notes. 👑

Real talk though: this utility requires curl, wget or lynx to be installed — it literally cannot do its little thing without one of them, so make sure one of those besties is on the guest list. And if gzip or bzip2 are available? It automatically downloads the compressed version of the list. Frugal. Efficient. Ate. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -q — be quiet 💀 and do not report anything except errors. Like, it's in its silent era. Errors still get through tho, because those are important fr fr.

✨ FILES ✨

  • /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids — here we install the new list. 🫶 That's the spot. The address. The home base.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

lspci(8), pci.ids(5), curl(1), wget(1), lynx(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1)

✨ AUTHOR ✨

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

ngl, the only option is -q, so if you were hoping for a whole menu of flags… not me expecting that either. 😭 One flag. One job. Periodt.

okay that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil number is from pciutils-3.15.0, dated 05 April 2026, and it's filed under update-pciids(8) in The PCI Utilities. mwah 💖 take care of your pci.ids, it takes care of you. ✨🎀🦋

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