How To Install ubertooth on Fedora 34

ubertooth is A Bluetooth wireless development platform for experimentation

Introduction

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

What is ubertooth

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.

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

Install ubertooth 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 ubertooth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ubertooth

Install ubertooth 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 ubertooth using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ubertooth

How To Uninstall ubertooth on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ubertooth

ubertooth Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ubertooth-afh
/usr/bin/ubertooth-btbr
/usr/bin/ubertooth-btle
/usr/bin/ubertooth-debug
/usr/bin/ubertooth-dfu
/usr/bin/ubertooth-ducky
/usr/bin/ubertooth-dump
/usr/bin/ubertooth-ego
/usr/bin/ubertooth-follow
/usr/bin/ubertooth-rx
/usr/bin/ubertooth-scan
/usr/bin/ubertooth-specan
/usr/bin/ubertooth-tx
/usr/bin/ubertooth-util
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/3ef6cefdebf92fcd145c442ea036239e80954d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/c2bdb10ae36f224c91dd5603eb04869218b4c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/278bbb76d5c15049b919f09fd5559bb26c8986
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/d972eb442553136839f96be4361fbd5ff2ffa5
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/35a3946e5b22f38b57e662206d89438c290e00
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/bfd5216d4b0412af4ece990ee3852e1e5c3333
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/824c94d0e44893dba969f130ad5272f5b15316
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/63fc0af18eb249c624d196a86f346ebd834eb8
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/6c57e7291e2f44d051a7be568b6c6386a1105a
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/29d0c14ac85e098c18488f4665f00acd2f24a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/ac730f35c3db5b5e5a91e2aed23cd49b7d49a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/5cce3cb46172269378796fdf454cdfaa1ac135
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/05e1d4553af3c9586202889d0da44c3d2e4c71
/usr/share/doc/ubertooth
/usr/share/doc/ubertooth/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ubertooth
/usr/share/licenses/ubertooth/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/ubertooth/TRADEMARK
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-afh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-btle.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-dfu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-ego.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-rx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-scan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-specan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubertooth-util.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/ubertooth.7.gz

References

Summary

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