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title: Install wireless-tools on elementary OS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of wireless-tools for on elementary OS - Tools
  for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/wireless-tools/elementary
---

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# Install wireless-tools on **elementary OS**

# wireless-tools

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#### Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions

This snap 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.
Please find the source of this snap at the following location:
<https://code.launchpad.net/~snappy-hwe-team/snappy-hwe-snaps/+git/wireless-tools>

### Package name

* wireless-tools

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### License

* Other Open Source

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### Last updated

* 17 May 2017 - latest/stable
* 17 May 2017 - latest/candidate

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Contact

* [snaps@canonical.com](mailto:snaps@canonical.com "mailto:snaps@canonical.com")

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## Enable snaps on elementary OS and install wireless-tools

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open *Terminal* from the Applications launcher and type the following:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install wireless-tools

To install wireless-tools, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install wireless-tools
```

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