How To Install iw on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Kali Linux. iw is tool for configuring Linux wireless devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Kali Linux.

What is iw

iw is:

This package contains the ‘iw’ command line tool which allows to configure and show information about wireless devices.

iw is based on the nl80211 kernel interface and supports the majority of fairly recent hardware. The old tool iwconfig, which uses Wireless Extensions interface, is deprecated and it is strongly recommended to switch to iw and nl80211.

There are three methods to install iw on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install iw Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install iw using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iw

Install iw Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iw using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iw

Install iw Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install iw using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iw

How To Uninstall iw on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the iw package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iw

Uninstall iw And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iw and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iw

Remove iw Configurations and Data

To remove iw configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iw

Remove iw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iw configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iw

Dependencies

iw have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.