How To Install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is bluez-hid2hci.x86_64
Most allinone PC’s and bluetooth keyboard / mouse sets which include a bluetooth dongle, ship with a so called HID proxying bluetooth HCI. The HID proxying makes the keyboard / mouse show up as regular USB HID devices (after connecting using the connect button on the device + keyboard), which makes them work without requiring any manual configuration. The bluez-hid2hci package contains the hid2hci utility and udev rules to automatically switch supported Bluetooth devices into regular HCI mode. Install this package if you want to use the bluetooth function of the HCI with other bluetooth devices like for example a mobile phone. Note that after installing this package you will first need to pair your bluetooth keyboard and mouse with the bluetooth adapter before you can use them again. Since you cannot use your bluetooth keyboard and mouse until they are paired, this will require the use of a regular (wired) USB keyboard and mouse.
We can use yum to install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64.
Install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64
How To Uninstall bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove bluez-hid2hci.x86_64
bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/lib/udev/rules.d/97-hid2hci.rules
/usr/lib/udev/hid2hci
/usr/share/man/man1/hid2hci.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-hid2hci.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.