How To Install bluewho on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluewho
on Debian 9.
What is bluewho
bluewho is:
BlueWho informs and notifies when a new bluetooth device is discovered. Detection can be requested by the user or automatically continuous until it’s stopped. A visible and audible notification can be triggered whenever a new device is detected.
Each device found will be saved on the list as well its name, MAC address, last seen date and time. For each device a list of available Bluetooth services can be requested.
There are three methods to install bluewho
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bluewho Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bluewho
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bluewho
Install bluewho Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bluewho
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bluewho
Install bluewho Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bluewho
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bluewho
How To Uninstall bluewho on Debian 9
To uninstall only the bluewho
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bluewho
Uninstall bluewho And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bluewho
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluewho
Remove bluewho Configurations and Data
To remove bluewho
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bluewho
Remove bluewho configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bluewho
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluewho
Dependencies
bluewho have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluewho
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.