How To Install bluez on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez on CentOS 7. bluez is Bluetooth utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez on CentOS 7.

What is bluez

Utilities for use in Bluetooth applications - hcitool - hciattach - hciconfig - bluetoothd - l2ping - rfcomm - sdptool - bccmd - bluetoothctl - btmon - hcidump - l2test - rctest - gatttool - start scripts (Red Hat) - pcmcia configuration files The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A.

We can use yum or dnf to install bluez on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bluez.

Install bluez on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install bluez

Install bluez on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install bluez

How To Uninstall bluez on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove bluez

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.