nmtui no longer in the void repo? [SOLVED]

[geo_c]

So I moved my new polished KLV-bspwm over to a new machine which has a working wifi adapter, (unlike the one I was developing with,) and I configured it to sign into my home wifi router using the built-in Advanced Network Manager, and that worked perfectly well.

However as far as I can tell, Advanced Network Manager doesn't scan for networks, it's simply designed for manual configuration.

So I thought I would install nmtui so that if I'm out and about I could sign into someone else's network (like my work locations) by scanning. Nmtui is perfectly effective and dependable so far for that purpose.

However, when I went to install it, the package manager said it doesn't exist in the repo. So I searched https://voidlinux.org/packages/ for it. It's not there.

Do you think it''s gone for good? Hopefully it's just temporarily gone and being updated.

[williwaw]

its part of the NetworkManager void package. should be there if you are unsing networkmanager already, networkmanager might conflict with a different manager. dunno what Advanced Network Manager is but what does "nmcli" return in the terminal?

[geo_c]

what does "nmcli" return in the terminal?

nmcli says this:

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nmcli
eth0: connected to Wired connection 1
      ....redacted

lo: connected (externally) to lo
        "lo"
        loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536
      ...redacted

wlan0: unavailable
        "Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300"
        ...redacted

DNS configuration:
       ...redacted

Use "nmcli device show" to get complete information about known devices and
"nmcli connection show" to get an overview on active connection profiles.

Consult nmcli(1) and nmcli-examples(7) manual pages for complete usage details.

[geo_c]

Oh it's already installed I see. There's no package because it's built into the network manager tools.

Duh....

[rockedge]

I've been installing NetworkManager on most of the KL projects that are production grade. The experimental mini's I am configuring and re-configuring with, I use wiakwifi on a terminal for hardcore minimalism and then put in a larger and more sophisticated network manager for more conveniences.