How To Install bluez on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez
on Kali Linux.
What is bluez
bluez is:
This package contains tools and system daemons for using Bluetooth devices.
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
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bluez
Install bluez Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bluez
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bluez
Install bluez 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bluez
How To Uninstall bluez on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bluez
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bluez
Uninstall bluez And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bluez
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluez
Remove bluez Configurations and Data
To remove bluez
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bluez
Remove bluez configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bluez
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluez
Dependencies
bluez have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- libasound2
- libc6
- libdbus-1-3
- libdw1
- libglib2.0-0
- libreadline8
- libudev1
- kmod
- udev
- lsb-base
- dbus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.