28 Dec
2014
28 Dec
'14
11:31 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:49:02 -0500 (EST)
Felmon Davis <davisf(a)union.edu> wrote:
for instance attempting "apt-get install bluedevil" yields:
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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.
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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
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. :-)