How To Install wireless-tools on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireless-tools on CentOS 7. wireless-tools is Wireless ethernet configuration tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireless-tools on CentOS 7.

What is `wireless-tools`

This package contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats for wireless networking equipment.

We can use yum or dnf to install wireless-tools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireless-tools.

Install wireless-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install wireless-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wireless-tools

Install wireless-tools 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 wireless-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wireless-tools

How To Uninstall wireless-tools on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the wireless-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wireless-tools

References

wireless-tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireless-tools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.