How To Install NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8. NetworkManager-tui is NetworkManager curses-based UI

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8.

What is NetworkManager-tui

This adds a curses-based “TUI” (Text User Interface) to NetworkManager, to allow performing some of the operations supported by nm-connection-editor and nm-applet in a non-graphical environment.

We can use yum or dnf to install NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install NetworkManager-tui.

Install NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install NetworkManager-tui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install NetworkManager-tui

Install NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install NetworkManager-tui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install NetworkManager-tui

How To Uninstall NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the NetworkManager-tui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove NetworkManager-tui

NetworkManager-tui Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/nmtui
/usr/bin/nmtui-connect
/usr/bin/nmtui-edit
/usr/bin/nmtui-hostname
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/65c07de47a6a9f02e815d1925a8d668c808621
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui-connect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui-edit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui-hostname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui.1.gz
/usr/bin/nmtui
/usr/bin/nmtui-connect
/usr/bin/nmtui-edit
/usr/bin/nmtui-hostname
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/ec87adcf98368c3fd9b4d734fcc4442eccfdfe
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui-connect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui-edit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui-hostname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nmtui.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install NetworkManager-tui on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.