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Blue-Maned Hawk
Asked: 2019-05-08 19:16:32 +0800 CST

Cannot execute lsusb

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I'm trying to discover the USB VID for a keyboard that I intend to use as a second keyboard for macros. I have found a tutorial that tells me to use the command lsusb to discover this, but when I try to type lsusb in the terminal it does not work, stating that the command was not found.

How can I use this command? I use Xubuntu 16.04.

keyboard command-line usb

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    On my system lsusb runs, so I look for the file

    guiverc@d960-ubu2:~$   whereis lsusb
lsusb: /usr/bin/lsusb /usr/share/man/man8/lsusb.8.gz

    I look for what package the command is found 

    guiverc@d960-ubu2:~$   dpkg -S /usr/bin/lsusb
usbutils: /usr/bin/lsusb

    At this point I'd probably have the answer you want, ie. ensure that package is installed, on my box I can use

    guiverc@d960-ubu2:~$   apt-cache policy usbutils
usbutils:
  Installed: 1:010-3
  Candidate: 1:010-3
  Version table:
 *** 1:010-3 500
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

    or in summary; check you have usbutils installed, and sudo apt install usbutils if you don't.

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