On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:49:02 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis davisf@union.edu wrote:
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Timothy Pearson wrote:
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 2014/12/28 06:19 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
c) can't install bluetooth utilities on the laptop that has it.
Terminal output would be helpful here too. :-)
for instance attempting "apt-get install bluedevil" yields:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: bluedevil : Depends: kde-runtime (> 4:4.10) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
weird how kde-runtime is involved. attempting to install it yields another bouquet of "depends ... not going to be installed; you have held broken packages" messages.
bluedevil is a KDE project, so it's unsurprising it wants a bunch of KDE4 stuff installed. There are a couple of alternatives, though.
blueman is a GTK+-based GUI bluetooth manager. It seems to be the only widely available one not tied to a desktop environment. If your distro offers it, this is probably the easiest choice.
You also have the option of using bluetoothctl (or simple-agent) to pair devices from the command line. These tools are part of bluez, the package that bluedevil and blueman provide a front-end for. Warning: this is Not Pretty. The Gentoo wiki has a mostly distro-agnostic list of commands at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Device_pairing .
E. Liddell