How To Install btkbdd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install btkbdd on Fedora 34.
What is btkbdd
This tool starts a Bluetooth HID Keyboard service, serving keystrokes obtained via Linux Input subsystem’s event device (evdev). In practical terms, it turns your Linux box with a physical keyboard into a Bluetooth keyboard, which can be used by various Bluetooth HID capable devices, including desktop or tablet computers, smart phones, game consoles and so on.
We can use yum or dnf to install btkbdd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install btkbdd.
Install btkbdd on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install btkbdd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install btkbdd
Install btkbdd on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install btkbdd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install btkbdd
How To Uninstall btkbdd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the btkbdd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove btkbdd
btkbdd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/61c904ab2df6918eb9b85b0226fff585ba7bb4
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/73155080d086fa6559d4165da57af270ba5493
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-btkbdd.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-evmuxd.rules
/usr/sbin/btkbdd
/usr/sbin/evmuxd
/usr/share/doc/btkbdd
/usr/share/doc/btkbdd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/btkbdd/README.pod
/usr/share/doc/btkbdd/architecture.png
/usr/share/man/man8/btkbdd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/evmuxd.8.gz
/var/lib/btkbdd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install btkbdd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.