How To Install iw on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Ubuntu.
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 Ubuntu. 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 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 iw using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iw
How To Uninstall iw on Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iw
Remove iw Configurations and Data
To remove iw configuration and data from Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.