Re: debian from ethernet to wifi

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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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