How To Install bolt on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bolt
on Fedora 36.
What is bolt
bolt is a system daemon to manage Thunderbolt devices via a D-BUS API. Thunderbolt 3 introduced different security modes that require devices to be authorized before they can be used. The D-Bus API can be used to list devices, enroll them (authorize and store them in the local database) and forget them again (remove previously enrolled devices). It also emits signals if new devices are connected (or removed). During enrollment devices can be set to be automatically authorized as soon as they are connected. A command line tool, called boltctl, can be used to control the daemon and perform all the above mentioned tasks.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install bolt
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bolt.
Install bolt on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install bolt
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install bolt on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install bolt
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall bolt on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the bolt
package we can use the following command:
bolt Package Contents on Fedora 36
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bolt
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).