How To Install bluetooth on Debian 10

Learn how to install bluetooth on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bluetooth is Bluetooth support (metapackage)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluetooth on Debian 10.

What is bluetooth

bluetooth is:

This package provides all of the different plugins supported by the Bluez bluetooth stack.

There are three methods to install bluetooth on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install 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 bluetooth using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bluetooth

Install bluetooth Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bluetooth using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bluetooth

Install 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 bluetooth using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bluetooth

How To Uninstall bluetooth on Debian 10

To uninstall only the bluetooth package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bluetooth

Uninstall bluetooth And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bluetooth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluetooth

Remove bluetooth Configurations and Data

To remove bluetooth configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bluetooth

Remove bluetooth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bluetooth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluetooth

Dependencies

bluetooth have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluetooth package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.