How To Install bolt on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bolt on CentOS 7.
What is bolt
bolt is a system daemon to manage thunderbolt 3 devices via a D-BUS API. Thunderbolt 3 features different security modes that require devices to be authorized before they can be used. The D-Bus API can be used to list devices, enroll them (authorize and store them in the local database) and forget them again (remove previously enrolled devices). It also emits signals if new devices are connected (or removed). During enrollment devices can be set to be automatically authorized as soon as they are connected. A command line tool, called boltctl, can be used to control the daemon and perform all the above mentioned tasks.
We can use yum or dnf to install bolt on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bolt.
Install bolt on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bolt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bolt
Install bolt 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 bolt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bolt
How To Uninstall bolt on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bolt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bolt
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bolt on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
