Wireless network management - wicd removed from Slackware -current
by TheTKS from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56PEK)
Although it's still in SlackwareARM, for the moment at least.
Interesting news and seems a shame to me. I used wicd at first on my RPI4, and found it simple and nicely usable in both GUI and CLI, although in playing with my RPi, I ended up trying NetworkManager and just stuck with it.
Exaga, something to consider for an update or rewrite of the Sarpi site's mini project "Setting up a wireless network connection." Which, BTW, is fantastic. I don't think I would have worked out how to set up wireless connection via wicd without it, and I learned some useful things in the process.
TKS
From the changelog:
Sat Aug 1 19:08:49 UTC 2020
extra/wicd/wicd-1.7.4-x86_64-3.txz: Removed.
This is unmaintained, possibly insecure, and doesn't work with Python versions newer than 2.7.18. NetworkManager is a better choice these days.
Interesting news and seems a shame to me. I used wicd at first on my RPI4, and found it simple and nicely usable in both GUI and CLI, although in playing with my RPi, I ended up trying NetworkManager and just stuck with it.
Exaga, something to consider for an update or rewrite of the Sarpi site's mini project "Setting up a wireless network connection." Which, BTW, is fantastic. I don't think I would have worked out how to set up wireless connection via wicd without it, and I learned some useful things in the process.
TKS
From the changelog:
Sat Aug 1 19:08:49 UTC 2020
extra/wicd/wicd-1.7.4-x86_64-3.txz: Removed.
This is unmaintained, possibly insecure, and doesn't work with Python versions newer than 2.7.18. NetworkManager is a better choice these days.