How To Install broadcom-sta-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install broadcom-sta-common on Kali Linux.

What is broadcom-sta-common

broadcom-sta-common is:

Broadcom STA is a binary-only device driver to support the following IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network cards: BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43142-, BCM43224-, BCM43225-, BCM43227-, BCM43228-, BCM4331-, BCM4360-, and BCM4352-based hardware.

This package contains the common files and it should not be installed manually (it will be installed automatically as needed).

There are three methods to install broadcom-sta-common on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install broadcom-sta-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install broadcom-sta-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install broadcom-sta-common

Install broadcom-sta-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install broadcom-sta-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install broadcom-sta-common

Install broadcom-sta-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install broadcom-sta-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install broadcom-sta-common

How To Uninstall broadcom-sta-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the broadcom-sta-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove broadcom-sta-common

Uninstall broadcom-sta-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall broadcom-sta-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove broadcom-sta-common

Remove broadcom-sta-common Configurations and Data

To remove broadcom-sta-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge broadcom-sta-common

Remove broadcom-sta-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove broadcom-sta-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge broadcom-sta-common

Dependencies

broadcom-sta-common have the following dependencies:

References

• broadcom-sta-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install broadcom-sta-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.