How To Install bluemon on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install bluemon

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install bluemon

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is bluemon and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install bluemon on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install bluemon on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install bluemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bluemon

Install bluemon on CentOS 8 using yum

Because bluemon is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install bluemon package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bluemon

How to upgrade (update) a single package bluemon using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like bluemon in this example you should use the following command:

yum update bluemon

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade bluemon

How to Upgrade bluemon on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update bluemon

How To remove bluemon from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bluemon package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove bluemon

Extra info and code examples

BlueMon monitors the quality of the link to a Bluetooth device and can start or stop programs when the threshold drops below a certain value. This can be used to perform actions like locking the terminal when you walk away from it. Bluemon uses the DBus system bus to alert other applications to the presence of Bluetooth devices. A user binary can then start or stop programs when such signals are received.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install bluemon using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the bluemon from CentOS 8.

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