Debian is telling me wpa_supplicant doesn't exist and that packages have
wpa_supplicant in their name and then lists wpagui.
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Geoff Shang wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 17:20:33
From: Geoff Shang <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: debian from ethernet to wifi
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I'm using a command line environment on what is probably a limited size
laptop and the only wpa_supplicant on debian is a gui package. There's no
command line version of that package.
I'm guessing it's wanting to install a bunch of graphical libraries, which is
why you're saying what you're saying.
wpasupplicant is not a GUI package and should install fine. It does depend
on a couple of networking libraries but that's it.
What I suspect is happening is that it's also wanting to install wpagui which
*is* a GUI program. This is a suggested package, and unfortunately apt is
configured to pull in recommended packages by default.
You can run the following command to turn this annoying feature off:
echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";'
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99disable-recommends
HTH,
Geoff.
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