How To Install go-bluetooth on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install go-bluetooth on Debian 12.
What is go-bluetooth
go-bluetooth is:
This package contains a Go bluetooth API for Linux-based Bluez DBus interface.
High level features supported:
- Client code generation from bluez documentation
- Shell wrappers for rfkill, btmgmt, hciconfig, hcitool
- An hci socket basic API (inspired by go-ble/ble
- Expose bluetooth service from go code [unstable]
- Pairing and authentication support (via agent)
- Beaconing send & receive (iBeacon and Eddystone)
- Mesh API support (since v5.53)
This package contains the client software.
There are three methods to install go-bluetooth on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install go-bluetooth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install go-bluetooth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install go-bluetooth
Install go-bluetooth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install go-bluetooth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install go-bluetooth
Install go-bluetooth Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install go-bluetooth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install go-bluetooth
How To Uninstall go-bluetooth on Debian 12
To uninstall only the go-bluetooth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove go-bluetooth
Uninstall go-bluetooth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall go-bluetooth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove go-bluetooth
Remove go-bluetooth Configurations and Data
To remove go-bluetooth configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge go-bluetooth
Remove go-bluetooth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove go-bluetooth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge go-bluetooth
Dependencies
go-bluetooth have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install go-bluetooth package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
