Information about the package, wireless-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The wireless-tools package is designed for, Wireless ethernet configuration tools.
Package Name:
wireless-tools
Summary:
Wireless ethernet configuration tools
Description:
This package contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats for wireless networking equipment.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
29
Release:
6.el6
Size:
93 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the wireless-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install wireless-tools
This command will install wireless-tools on the server.
yum remove wireless-tools
This command will un-install wireless-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wireless-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove wireless-tools
This command will un-install wireless-tools on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wireless-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update wireless-tools
This command will update wireless-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wireless-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update wireless-tools
This command will update wireless-tools to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wireless-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info wireless-tools
This command will show you core information about the wireless-tools package.
yum deplist wireless-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for wireless-tools. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update wireless-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on wireless-tools. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.