saronn wrote: > I downloaded the .tar.gz of lspci and went into pretty much all the folders, "make"-ing and "make install"-ing You went to far. Unless you have source based distro (really not recommended for novices) you should be installing programs from package manager. Each binary based distro has a "package manager" - a program that can install any of 1000s of programs available for your distribution, already compiled and made specifically for that distro.
