How To Install wireless-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireless-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is wireless-tools
wireless-tools is:
This package contains the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Linux Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install wireless-tools on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wireless-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wireless-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wireless-tools
Install wireless-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wireless-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wireless-tools
Install wireless-tools 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 wireless-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wireless-tools
How To Uninstall wireless-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the wireless-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wireless-tools
Uninstall wireless-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wireless-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wireless-tools
Remove wireless-tools Configurations and Data
To remove wireless-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wireless-tools
Remove wireless-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wireless-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wireless-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireless-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.