How To Install bluez-hcidump on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hcidump on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 bluez-hcidump using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bluez-hcidump

How To Uninstall bluez-hcidump on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• bluez-hcidump website

Summary

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