What is Lubuntu's network manager?

**agxryt** · December 11th, 2012

I've been reading some stuff on using wicd as opposed to nm, in relation to a problem another forum user had posted.

It's suggestion was the removal of the network-manager package, and installation of the wicd package.

WELL. I can't find any network-manager package in my system to remove or even tinker with :/ All I could find was nm-applet.

tl;dr how do I start/remove the standard lubuntu network manager?

I've installed wicd, and invoking it in terminal just gives "daemon is already started"

I'm really just looking for some explanation as to what is going on

**Dennis N** · December 11th, 2012

The default Lubuntu installation uses network-manager, same as Ubuntu.

**agxryt** · December 11th, 2012

Originally Posted by Dennis N

The default Lubuntu installation uses network-manager, same as Ubuntu.

Yeah, I found it.

network-manager-gnome.

It's just that when I invoke it in terminal, it says command not found. But I can uninstall it. Why is that?

**Dennis N** · December 11th, 2012

Originally Posted by agxryt

Yeah, I found it.

network-manager-gnome.

There IS a package named network-manager installed on your system:

Code:

dn@Alexa:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Also see for more details:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/network-manager

**agxryt** · December 11th, 2012

Originally Posted by Dennis N

There IS a package named network-manager installed on your system:

Code:

dn@Alexa:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Also see for more details:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/network-manager

Yeah!

Code:

ben@computer06:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

But how come I can't just run these applications in the terminal? I thought you could basically do that with anything :S

**Dennis N** · December 11th, 2012

Originally Posted by agxryt

But how come I can't just run these applications in the terminal? I thought you could basically do that with anything :S

It (network-manager) has already started up during the boot process. That's why.

**agxryt** · December 11th, 2012

Originally Posted by Dennis N

It (network-manager) has already started up during the boot process. That's why.

I still don't really understand. Why wouldn't it give an "already running" exception, instead of just "doesn't exist lol"

Either way, I just learned about nmcli, so I should be good to go. Thanks a bunch!