How To Install libubertooth on Fedora 34

libubertooth is Shared library for Bluetooth experimentation Shared library for Bluetooth experimentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libubertooth on Fedora 34.

What is `libubertooth`

Project Ubertooth is an open source wireless development platform suitable for Bluetooth experimentation. Ubertooth ships with a capable BLE (Bluetooth Smart) sniffer and can sniff some data from Basic Rate (BR) Bluetooth Classic connections. This package provides the development files for using the ubertooth library. libubertooth 2020.12.R1 3.fc34 x86_64 38 k ubertooth-2020.12.R1-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Shared library for Bluetooth experimentation https GPLv2 Project Ubertooth is an open source wireless development platform suitable for Bluetooth experimentation. Ubertooth ships with a capable BLE (Bluetooth Smart) sniffer and can sniff some data from Basic Rate (BR) Bluetooth Classic connections. This package provides the development files for using the ubertooth library.

We can use yum or dnf to install libubertooth on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libubertooth.

Install libubertooth 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 libubertooth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libubertooth

Install libubertooth 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 libubertooth using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libubertooth

How To Uninstall libubertooth on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libubertooth

libubertooth Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/586f90eef0e39ab902e2d494dcdae5c236da66
/usr/lib/libubertooth.so.1
/usr/lib/libubertooth.so.1.1
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-ubertooth.rules
/usr/share/doc/libubertooth
/usr/share/doc/libubertooth/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libubertooth
/usr/share/licenses/libubertooth/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libubertooth/TRADEMARK
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/89be2e34ccaa076bc5db0ccde6e34c27483b10
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-ubertooth.rules
/usr/lib64/libubertooth.so.1
/usr/lib64/libubertooth.so.1.1
/usr/share/doc/libubertooth
/usr/share/doc/libubertooth/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libubertooth
/usr/share/licenses/libubertooth/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libubertooth/TRADEMARK

References

[libubertooth website](https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libubertooth on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.