How To Install gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 is Bluetooth graphical utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gnome-bluetooth.x86_64`

The gnome-bluetooth package contains graphical utilities to setup, monitor and use Bluetooth devices.

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

Install gnome-bluetooth.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 gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-bluetooth.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnome-bluetooth.x86_64

gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/bluetooth-sendto
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gnome-bluetooth-rfkill.rules
/usr/share/applications/bluetooth-sendto.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gnome-bluetooth-3.28.2
/usr/share/doc/gnome-bluetooth-3.28.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-bluetooth-3.28.2/README
/usr/share/gnome-bluetooth
/usr/share/gnome-bluetooth/pin-code-database.xml
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-bluetooth-3.28.2
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-bluetooth-3.28.2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bluetooth-sendto.1.gz

References

gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 website

Summary

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