How To Install openobex-apps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openobex-apps.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openobex-apps.x86_64 is Applications for using OBEX

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openobex-apps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `openobex-apps.x86_64`

Open OBEX Applications to exchange all kind of objects like files, pictures, calendar entries (vCal) and business cards (vCard) using the OBEX protocol.

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

Install openobex-apps.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 openobex-apps.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openobex-apps.x86_64

How To Uninstall openobex-apps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the openobex-apps.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove openobex-apps.x86_64

openobex-apps.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ircp
/usr/bin/irobex_palm3
/usr/bin/irxfer
/usr/bin/obex_push
/usr/bin/obex_tcp
/usr/share/man/man1/obex_push.1.gz

References

openobex-apps.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openobex-apps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.