How to Install and Uninstall wpasupplicant Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 20,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "wpasupplicant" package

This guide let you learn how to install wpasupplicant on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "wpasupplicant" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall wpasupplicant 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 wpasupplicant package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: wpasupplicant
Source: wpa
Version: 2:2.10-12
Installed-Size: 3851
Maintainer: Debian wpasupplicant Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), 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), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), adduser
Suggests: wpagui, libengine-pkcs11-openssl
Breaks: network-manager (<< 1.36.4-2~)
Description: client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
Description-md5: 45df452b36e1c438641626b096751680
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://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_2.10-12_amd64.deb
Size: 1417844
MD5sum: 852113bda8c4b1b7a3a63966344d3cea
SHA256: 36b5683ae13ec98aab3086418348014b8371540942c76b87bc1e5d4bf8977103