How to install WICD on ubuntu 20.04?

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

1 Answer

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

and then use it.