wpa_gui command not found

Introduction

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

wpa_gui: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wpa_gui: command not found

Solutions to wpa_gui: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wpa_gui is provided by wpagui package.

wpagui is:

wpagui provides a Qt interface for choosing which configured network to connect to. It also provides a method for browsing 802.11 SSID scan results, an event history log of messages generated by wpa_supplicant, and a method to add or edit wpa_supplicant networks.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wpagui

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

You can also use apt command to install wpagui.

sudo apt -y install wpagui

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

sudo aptitude install wpagui

Summary

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