WIFI on raspberry pi

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CdrHacker
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Im running my pi with the Raspberry PI Extenstion 01 – SD Card Image and it is working on Ethernet i want to use it over wifi though i have a wipi wifi module i have used this in the past with NOOBS (GUI) but cant seem to get it working in the command line. I am a noob so any help appreciated.
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Raspberry PI v3 with WiFi on board ?
CdrHacker
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Yes it is
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I might be missing something here but the disk image doesn't have wpa_supplicant installed and when i try to do "apt-get install wpasupplicant" i get another error (could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
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sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
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still doesn't work it says it installed however the wpa_supplicant.conf file still doesn't exist even after a reboot.
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You can create it by yourself.
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