iwlist command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

iwlist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iwlist: command not found

Solutions to iwlist: command not found

How To Fix iwlist: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iwlist is provided by wireless-tools package.

wireless-tools is:

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.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install wireless-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install wireless-tools.

sudo apt -y install wireless-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install wireless-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix iwlist command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.