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I am using ubuntu 20.04 focal 64bit. Pre installed network manager is giving me headache. It suddenly drops wifi connection. On scanning again it shows no visible network. The input command

lshw -C network

gives output

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface

while searching for the solution i saw WICD solves the problem but how do i install on my laptop. INPUT 

sudo apt install wicd

OUTPUT

E: package 'wicd' has no installation candidate
parv desai
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  • i recently swiched to ubuntu i am a newbie. I liked it very much. Only the wifi drop is giving me problems – parv desai May 16 '20 at 06:35
  • Mind that it probably is smarter to fix your problem, The drop of the connection can be because your router is not configured correctly.It could be the channel you are using. If that is the case wicd will not be the solution regardless of what online is stated. – Rinzwind May 16 '20 at 08:00

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The wicd-gtk was removed from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repositories because of Python 2 deprecation.

But you still can install it if you download packages manually from 19.10:

mkdir -p ~/Downloads/wicd
cd ~/Downloads/wicd

wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-6_amd64.deb
wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-glade2_2.24.0-6_amd64.deb


wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wicd/python-wicd_1.7.4+tb2-6_all.deb
wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wicd/wicd-daemon_1.7.4+tb2-6_all.deb
wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wicd/wicd-gtk_1.7.4+tb2-6_all.deb


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ./.deb
sudo apt-get install ./.deb # second time for correct configuration

and then use it.

N0rbert
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