How To Install wpagui on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wpagui on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is wpagui
wpagui is:
wpagui provides a Qt interface for choosing which configured network to connect to. It also provides a method for browsing 802.11 SSID scan results, an event history log of messages generated by wpa_supplicant, and a method to add or edit wpa_supplicant networks.
Package: wpagui Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:2.9-1ubuntu4 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: wpa Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian wpasupplicant Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 811 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 5), wpasupplicant (>= 0.7.3~), libqt5svg5 Recommends: menu Filename: pool/universe/w/wpa/wpagui_2.9-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb Size: 267528 MD5sum: 4f8e96af4e63c382ad613173ebc329aa SHA1: 468468f18b09fc699aa6dc5454d1e5b2f61439f8 SHA256: 6966c4d6103a466e53cccbd7bb90b09dd8a98666ab136aae1eeb79b39ade8b20 Homepage: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/ Description-en: graphical user interface for wpa_supplicant wpagui provides a Qt interface for choosing which configured network to connect to. It also provides a method for browsing 802.11 SSID scan results, an event history log of messages generated by wpa_supplicant, and a method to add or edit wpa_supplicant networks.
There are three methods to install wpagui on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wpagui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wpagui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wpagui
Install wpagui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wpagui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wpagui
Install wpagui Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wpagui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wpagui
How To Uninstall wpagui on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the wpagui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wpagui
Uninstall wpagui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wpagui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wpagui
Remove wpagui Configurations and Data
To remove wpagui configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wpagui
Remove wpagui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wpagui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wpagui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wpagui package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
