How To Install iw on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is iw
iw is:
This package contains the `iw’ tool which allows you to configure and show information about wireless networking.
In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required. See /usr/share/doc/iw/README.Debian for a more detailed overview of iw.
There are three methods to install iw 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 iw Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iw using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iw
Install iw Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iw using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iw
Install iw 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 iw using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iw
How To Uninstall iw on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the iw package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iw
Uninstall iw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iw and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iw
Remove iw Configurations and Data
To remove iw configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iw
Remove iw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iw configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iw
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
