How To Install bolt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install bolt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. bolt.x86_64 is Thunderbolt device manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bolt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `bolt.x86_64`

bolt is a system daemon to manage thunderbolt 3 devices via a D-BUS API. Thunderbolt 3 features different security modes that require devices to be authorized before they can be used. The D-Bus API can be used to list devices, enroll them (authorize and store them in the local database) and forget them again (remove previously enrolled devices). It also emits signals if new devices are connected (or removed). During enrollment devices can be set to be automatically authorized as soon as they are connected. A command line tool, called boltctl, can be used to control the daemon and perform all the above mentioned tasks.

We can use yum to install bolt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bolt.x86_64.

Install bolt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bolt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bolt.x86_64

How To Uninstall bolt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the bolt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove bolt.x86_64

bolt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.bolt.conf
/usr/bin/boltctl
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bolt.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-bolt.rules
/usr/libexec/boltd
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.bolt.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.bolt.service
/usr/share/doc/bolt-0.7
/usr/share/doc/bolt-0.7/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bolt-0.7
/usr/share/licenses/bolt-0.7/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/boltctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/boltd.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.bolt.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.bolt.rules
/var/lib/boltd

References

bolt.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bolt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.