How To Install wavemon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wavemon on CentOS 7.
What is wavemon
wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch all important information like device configuration, encryption, and power management parameters and network information at once. Adaptive level bargraphs for link quality, signal/noise strength and signal-to-noise ratio. The customizeable “level alarm” feature that notices the user of changes in signal level strength audibly and/or visually. wavemon is able to list of access points in range and shows full-screen level histogram displaying signal/noise levels and SNR.
We can use yum or dnf to install wavemon on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wavemon.
Install wavemon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install wavemon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wavemon
Install wavemon on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install wavemon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wavemon
How To Uninstall wavemon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the wavemon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wavemon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wavemon on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
