How To Install bluez-hcidump on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hcidump on Ubuntu 20.04. bluez-hcidump is Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hcidump on Ubuntu 20.04.

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).

Package: bluez-hcidump Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.53-0ubuntu3.2 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: bluez Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Bluetooth team [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Bluetooth Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 469 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Filename: pool/universe/b/bluez/bluez-hcidump_5.53-0ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb Size: 142804 MD5sum: 056e66467cb70b99cfc4cece7d7bb2b8 SHA1: 6a51da87342cc7774991fb81db63c1612c39deba SHA256: 022d6f5c50208c9174e3e1f640970d9a01f4c6b13b807134564b83a9e5e670ce SHA512: cd2b2d5d90346b50eb60851b6e4ab05cbf0ac00d8f352b5c5700a5644d8c986193fc41c4e8201705d5a29438b2b245f5a5795a3eb6b204361bda547322d8dd50 Homepage: http://www.bluez.org Description-en: Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets 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).

Package: bluez-hcidump Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.53-0ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: bluez Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Bluetooth team [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Bluetooth Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 469 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Filename: pool/universe/b/bluez/bluez-hcidump_5.53-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 142564 MD5sum: 94d18d77e4ba658f2c3947f90a6c053f SHA1: 94770a9210804f8743dd20ab954e1de6ac2110ce SHA256: cdcf3c3acedd77d27c6debf6c13414a6a9de7a7bed8ad0f37833e36dd0ddaa9a Homepage: http://www.bluez.org Description-en: Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets 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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04

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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hcidump package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.