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