How To Install wpa_supplicant on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wpa_supplicant on Rocky Linux 8.
What is wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.
We can use yum or dnf to install wpa_supplicant on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wpa_supplicant.
Install wpa_supplicant on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install wpa_supplicant using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wpa_supplicant
Install wpa_supplicant on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install wpa_supplicant using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wpa_supplicant
How To Uninstall wpa_supplicant on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the wpa_supplicant package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/wpa_supplicant
/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
/etc/wpa_supplicant
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/b82a223891d2c5a18c47654f8fe4a257429ef5
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/511e07fc70768339ea9bce8f39a6176f7ff5bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/f07d84b31f2b650c3659361644bb1a249bebd2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/5faab30a53ed9f19ee2265d4234ee0cda6331a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service
/usr/sbin/eapol_test
/usr/sbin/wpa_cli
/usr/sbin/wpa_passphrase
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/eap_testing.txt
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/60_wpa_supplicant
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/dbus-listen-preq.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/dpp-qrcode.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/ieee8021x.conf
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/openCryptoki.conf
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p-action-udhcp.sh
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p-action.sh
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p-nfc.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_connect.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_disconnect.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_find.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_flush.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_group_add.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_invite.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_listen.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/p2p/p2p_stop_find.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/plaintext.conf
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/udhcpd-p2p.conf
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wep.conf
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wpa-psk-tkip.conf
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wpa2-eap-ccmp.conf
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wpas-dbus-new-getall.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wpas-dbus-new-signals.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wpas-dbus-new-wps.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wpas-dbus-new.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wps-ap-cli
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples/wps-nfc.py
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/todo.txt
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
/usr/share/licenses/wpa_supplicant
/usr/share/licenses/wpa_supplicant/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/wpa_supplicant.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/eapol_test.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/wpa_background.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/wpa_cli.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/wpa_passphrase.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/wpa_supplicant.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wpa_supplicant on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.