How To Install broadcom-sta-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install broadcom-sta-common
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 broadcom-sta-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install broadcom-sta-common
How To Uninstall broadcom-sta-common on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install broadcom-sta-common
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.