How To Install NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 is NetworkManager curses-based UI

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `NetworkManager-tui.x86_64`

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 to install NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install NetworkManager-tui.x86_64.

Install NetworkManager-tui.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 NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install NetworkManager-tui.x86_64

How To Uninstall NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove NetworkManager-tui.x86_64

NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/nmtui
/usr/bin/nmtui-connect
/usr/bin/nmtui-edit
/usr/bin/nmtui-hostname
/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

NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install NetworkManager-tui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.