How To Install bluez-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-tools
on Debian 9.
What is bluez-tools
bluez-tools is:
Bluez-tools provides command line tools to functions of Bluetooth. They are Bluetooth adapter control, Bluetooth agent, sound, input, network and other.
There are three methods to install bluez-tools
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-tools 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-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bluez-tools
Install bluez-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bluez-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bluez-tools
Install bluez-tools 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-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bluez-tools
How To Uninstall bluez-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the bluez-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bluez-tools
Uninstall bluez-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bluez-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluez-tools
Remove bluez-tools Configurations and Data
To remove bluez-tools
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bluez-tools
Remove bluez-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bluez-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluez-tools
Dependencies
bluez-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-tools
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.