How To Install iw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is iw.x86_64
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 to install iw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iw.x86_64.
Install iw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install iw.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install iw.x86_64
How To Uninstall iw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the iw.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove iw.x86_64
iw.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/sbin/iw
/usr/share/doc/iw-4.3
/usr/share/doc/iw-4.3/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iw.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.