How To Install iw on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Rocky Linux 8. iw is A nl80211 based wireless configuration tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Rocky Linux 8.

What is iw

iw is a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. Currently you can only use this utility to configure devices which use a mac80211 driver as these are the new drivers being written - only because most new wireless devices being sold are now SoftMAC.

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

Install iw 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 iw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iw

Install iw 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 iw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iw

How To Uninstall iw on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the iw package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove iw

iw Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/04c777d94792232edca00b9cef4165ab72530a
/usr/sbin/iw
/usr/share/licenses/iw
/usr/share/licenses/iw/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iw.8.gz

References

Summary

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