How To Install ubertooth-scan 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 ubertooth

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install ubertooth

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

What is ubertooth-scan 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 ubertooth-scan 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 ubertooth-scan 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 ubertooth-scan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ubertooth

Install ubertooth-scan on CentOS 8 using yum

Because ubertooth-scan 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 ubertooth-scan package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ubertooth

How to upgrade (update) a single package ubertooth-scan using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update ubertooth

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade ubertooth

How to Upgrade ubertooth-scan 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 ubertooth

How To remove ubertooth-scan from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ubertooth-scan package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove ubertooth

Extra info and code examples

Project Ubertooth is an open source wireless development platform suitable for Bluetooth experimentation. This package contains everything necessary to use the hardware dongle. Ubertooth is capable of sniffing BLE (Bluetooth Smart) connections and it also has some ability to sniff some data from Basic Rate (BR) Bluetooth Classic connections. In addition to the Bluetooth specific capabilities, there is also a simple spectrum analyzer for the 2.4 GHz band included (ubertooth-specan-ui) which can be used to also observe other things in this frequency band.

Conclusion

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

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