How To Install obex-data-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install obex-data-server.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. obex-data-server.x86_64 is D-Bus service for Obex access

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install obex-data-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `obex-data-server.x86_64`

obex-data-server is a D-Bus service to allow sending and receiving files using the ObexFTP and Obex Push protocols, common on mobile phones and other Bluetooth-equipped devices.

We can use yum to install obex-data-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install obex-data-server.x86_64.

Install obex-data-server.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 obex-data-server.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install obex-data-server.x86_64

How To Uninstall obex-data-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the obex-data-server.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove obex-data-server.x86_64

obex-data-server.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/obex-data-server
/etc/obex-data-server/capability.xml
/etc/obex-data-server/imaging_capabilities.xml
/usr/bin/obex-data-server
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/obex-data-server.service
/usr/share/doc/obex-data-server-0.4.6
/usr/share/doc/obex-data-server-0.4.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/obex-data-server-0.4.6/README
/usr/share/doc/obex-data-server-0.4.6/dbus-api.txt
/usr/share/doc/obex-data-server-0.4.6/ods-dbus-test.c
/usr/share/doc/obex-data-server-0.4.6/ods-server-test.py
/usr/share/doc/obex-data-server-0.4.6/ods-session-test.py
/usr/share/man/man1/obex-data-server.1.gz

References

obex-data-server.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install obex-data-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.