libhd-dev

Package contains libraries, required by other applications as dependencies. Do not install separately.

Hardware identification system library and headers
hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
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In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when
detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
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hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among
others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and
partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe,
isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.
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This package contains the static library and header files from the hwinfo
package.