How To Install bluewho on Debian 10

Learn how to install bluewho on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bluewho is notifies new discovered bluetooth devices

Introduction

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

What is bluewho

bluewho is:

BlueWho informs and notifies when a new bluetooth device is discovered. Detection can be requested by the user or automatically continuous until it’s stopped. A visible and audible notification can be triggered whenever a new device is detected.

Each device found will be saved on the list as well its name, MAC address, last seen date and time. For each device a list of available Bluetooth services can be requested.

There are three methods to install bluewho 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 bluewho Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bluewho using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bluewho

Install bluewho Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bluewho

Install bluewho 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 bluewho using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bluewho

How To Uninstall bluewho on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove bluewho

Uninstall bluewho And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluewho

Remove bluewho Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bluewho

Remove bluewho configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluewho

Dependencies

bluewho have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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