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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON 

update-pciids(8)            The PCI Utilities            update-pciids(8)

NAME         top

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

SYNOPSIS         top

       update-pciids [-q]

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

       -q     Be quiet and do not report anything except errors.

FILES         top

       /usr/local/share/pci.ids.gz
              Here we install the new list.

SEE ALSO         top

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

AUTHOR         top

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

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the pciutils (PCI utilities) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://mj.ucw.cz/sw/pciutils/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this
       manual page, send it to linux-pci@vger.kernel.org.  This page was
       obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git⟩ on
       2025-08-11.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2025-07-07.)  If you discover
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       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
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pciutils-3.9.0               20 November 2022            update-pciids(8)

Pages that refer to this page: pci.ids(5),  pcilib(7),  lspci(8)

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