How to Install and Uninstall wpasupplicant Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "wpasupplicant" package

Please follow the guidance below to install wpasupplicant on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                wpasupplicant
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "wpasupplicant" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall wpasupplicant on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                wpasupplicant
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wpasupplicant package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: wpasupplicant
Source: wpa
Version: 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u3
Installed-Size: 3353
Maintainer: Debian wpasupplicant Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.25), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.21), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-route-3-200 (>= 3.4.0), libpcsclite1 (>= 1.0.0), libreadline7 (>= 6.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), lsb-base, adduser
Suggests: wpagui, libengine-pkcs11-openssl
Breaks: initscripts (<< 2.88dsf-13.3)
Description: client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
Description-md5: db096b22f8ec5f5c7a8ec614d12ca20a
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Tag: admin::configuring, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
interface::daemon, interface::shell, network::client,
network::configuration, protocol::ssl, role::program,
security::cryptography, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::configuring
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wpa/wpasupplicant_2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u3_amd64.deb
Size: 1255484
MD5sum: 13d96172824333e38bf527491e03ca39
SHA256: 68215e120f08063a32bf7b3c7d03a95f93465dfa22de1b137a4750769ce56ffd