How To Install bluemon on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluemon on Kali Linux.

What is bluemon

bluemon is:

BlueMon monitors the quality of the link to a Bluetooth device and can start or stop programs when the threshold drops below a certain value. This can be used to perform actions like locking the terminal when you walk away from it.

Bluemon uses the DBus system bus to alert other applications to the presence of Bluetooth devices. A user binary can then start or stop programs when such signals are received.

There are three methods to install bluemon on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bluemon Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bluemon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bluemon

Install bluemon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bluemon using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bluemon

Install bluemon Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bluemon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bluemon

How To Uninstall bluemon on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bluemon

Uninstall bluemon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bluemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluemon

Remove bluemon Configurations and Data

To remove bluemon configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bluemon

Remove bluemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bluemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluemon

Dependencies

bluemon have the following dependencies:

• libbluetooth3
• libc6
• libdbus-1-3
• bluez
• lsb-base

References

• bluemon website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluemon package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.