How To Install bluez-deprecated on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-deprecated in Fedora 36. bluez-deprecated is Deprecated Bluetooth applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-deprecated on Fedora 36.

What is bluez-deprecated

Bluetooth applications that have bee deprecated by upstream. They have been replaced by funcationality in the core bluetoothctl and will eventually be dropped by upstream. Utilities include - ciptool - gatttool - hciattach - hciconfig - hcidump - hcitool - rfcomm - sdptool

We can use yum or dnf to install bluez-deprecated on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bluez-deprecated.

Install bluez-deprecated on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bluez-deprecated using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bluez-deprecated

Install bluez-deprecated on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bluez-deprecated using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bluez-deprecated

How To Uninstall bluez-deprecated on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the bluez-deprecated package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bluez-deprecated

bluez-deprecated Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ciptool
/usr/bin/gatttool
/usr/bin/hciattach
/usr/bin/hciconfig
/usr/bin/hcidump
/usr/bin/hcitool
/usr/bin/rfcomm
/usr/bin/sdptool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/ca9ddb0aa033b5e23384609825048a9fd5e755
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/e796f94bbe26dcb028158b4348b141c1f221e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/f47431be549e12752a59eac60a56f1d744464d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/7ef5fce00088288e39e9451e4b33e1543f650a
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/ce68d76fe1506521d872af0a319d9510e56f88
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/ab7125ec74f3b686dd54ea5fd861611d906996
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/45467cdd8c2fa518e654023a60cc6f3e31b69b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/5638c7794f9e019b75e3099c2881edc590a46d
/usr/share/man/man1/ciptool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hciattach.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hciconfig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hcidump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hcitool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rfcomm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sdptool.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-deprecated on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).