How To Install wicd-daemon on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wicd-daemon
on Debian 9.
What is wicd-daemon
wicd-daemon is:
Wicd is a general-purpose network configuration server which aims to provide a simple but flexible interface for connecting to networks. Its features include:
- wide variety of settings;
- ability to connect to (and maintain profiles for) both wired and wireless networks;
- support for many encryption schemes, including WEP, WPA, WPA2 and custom schemes;
- wireless-tools compatibility.
This package contains the daemon needed to run Wicd.
There are three methods to install wicd-daemon
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wicd-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wicd-daemon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wicd-daemon
Install wicd-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wicd-daemon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wicd-daemon
Install wicd-daemon 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wicd-daemon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wicd-daemon
How To Uninstall wicd-daemon on Debian 9
To uninstall only the wicd-daemon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wicd-daemon
Uninstall wicd-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wicd-daemon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wicd-daemon
Remove wicd-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove wicd-daemon
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wicd-daemon
Remove wicd-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wicd-daemon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wicd-daemon
Dependencies
wicd-daemon have the following dependencies:
- debconf
- adduser
- dbus
- dhcpcd5
- iputils-ping
- lsb-base
- psmisc
- python-dbus
- python-gobject
- python-wicd
- wireless-tools
- wpasupplicant
- python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wicd-daemon
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.