How To Install firmware-b43legacy-installer on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firmware-b43legacy-installer
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is firmware-b43legacy-installer
firmware-b43legacy-installer is:
This package downloads and installs the firmware needed by the b43legacy kernel driver for some Broadcom 43xx wireless network cards.
Supported chipsets:
- BCM4301;
- BCM4306/2;
- BCM4306.
There are three methods to install firmware-b43legacy-installer
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install firmware-b43legacy-installer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install firmware-b43legacy-installer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install firmware-b43legacy-installer
Install firmware-b43legacy-installer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install firmware-b43legacy-installer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install firmware-b43legacy-installer
Install firmware-b43legacy-installer 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 firmware-b43legacy-installer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install firmware-b43legacy-installer
How To Uninstall firmware-b43legacy-installer on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the firmware-b43legacy-installer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove firmware-b43legacy-installer
Uninstall firmware-b43legacy-installer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firmware-b43legacy-installer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove firmware-b43legacy-installer
Remove firmware-b43legacy-installer Configurations and Data
To remove firmware-b43legacy-installer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge firmware-b43legacy-installer
Remove firmware-b43legacy-installer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firmware-b43legacy-installer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firmware-b43legacy-installer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firmware-b43legacy-installer
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.