How to Install and Uninstall wireless-tools Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 20,2024

1. Install "wireless-tools" package

Please follow the steps below to install wireless-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall wireless-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                wireless-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wireless-tools package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: wireless-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 30~pre9-13.1ubuntu3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers
Original-Maintainer: Guus Sliepen
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 300
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libiw30 (>= 30~pre1)
Filename: pool/main/w/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_30~pre9-13.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 109766
MD5sum: 7a6957c76e225dbe97fb83d868762d8f
SHA1: a8f4896a771dcf2eeff1067050141ef92a734f5e
SHA256: 2c86e828526432af88d3d6c05034978050fa5d0245c209603532c3b3acb93484
SHA512: f6de1e944fff7da0224db6b4c7049b0d3a7b178c20283916b29f02c256c0ff3e8b627603e3e99266e48b2b25d2f810f898c4be75f54a49c8bb9a135066ec2e62
Homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
Description-en: Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
This package contains the Wireless tools, used to manipulate
the Linux Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface
allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the
specific stats.
Description-md5: 34c7dc532552aa22b7a3e5860d0000e7
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