How To Install bluez-hcidump on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hcidump on Debian 9.
What is bluez-hcidump
bluez-hcidump is:
The hcidump utility allows the monitoring of Bluetooth activity. It provides a disassembly of the Bluetooth traffic and can display packets from higher level protocols such as RFCOMM, SDP and BNEP.
This was the software that is independent as bluez-hcidump, but this has been integrated into BlueZ from BlueZ 5.0.
BlueZ is the official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack. It is an Open Source project distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
There are three methods to install bluez-hcidump 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 bluez-hcidump Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bluez-hcidump using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bluez-hcidump
Install bluez-hcidump Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bluez-hcidump using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bluez-hcidump
Install bluez-hcidump 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 bluez-hcidump using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bluez-hcidump
How To Uninstall bluez-hcidump on Debian 9
To uninstall only the bluez-hcidump package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bluez-hcidump
Uninstall bluez-hcidump And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bluez-hcidump and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluez-hcidump
Remove bluez-hcidump Configurations and Data
To remove bluez-hcidump configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bluez-hcidump
Remove bluez-hcidump configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bluez-hcidump configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluez-hcidump
Dependencies
bluez-hcidump have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hcidump package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.