How to Install and Uninstall wireless-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 03,2024

You can also install and uninstall the wireless-tools on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "wireless-tools" package

Learn how to install wireless-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                wireless-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "wireless-tools" package

Learn how to uninstall wireless-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wireless-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: wireless-tools
Version: 30~pre9-14
Installed-Size: 292
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libiw30 (>= 30~pre1)
Description: Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
Description-md5: 34c7dc532552aa22b7a3e5860d0000e7
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
Tag: admin::kernel, devel::lang:c, devel::library, hardware::TODO,
implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, network::configuration,
role::devel-lib, role::dummy, role::program, scope::utility,
use::configuring
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_30~pre9-14_amd64.deb
Size: 107400
MD5sum: 58a38fd7d41fcfcd65880e6f97bc07e8
SHA256: 75c57cfe2d6eb6e56c8e7f1b17f7805bc0a8d3b3d9f69d37fca62656783aa7e0