[BRLTTY] The bluetooth service seems to be running

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Mon Oct 3 21:17:19 EDT 2011


On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > 
> > > Here's where you may have a bit of a problem. Unfortunately, there's no command 
> > > line interface (that I'm aware of) for pairing a Bluetooth device. It has to be 
> > > done within the graphical environment.
> > 
> > you should be able to do that with bluez-simple-agent (installed in 
> > /usr/bin on Ubuntu).  This is a Python script talking to the bluez 
> > daemon over dbus.
> 
> I did:
> 
> apt-get install bluez-simple-agent
> 
> and got a return code of 100: Package not found.

This is not a package.  The bluez-simple-agent file is part of the 
"bluez" package.

$ dpkg -S  /usr/bin/bluez-simple-agent
bluez: /usr/bin/bluez-simple-agent

$ dpkg -s bluez | grep Version
Version: 4.96-0ubuntu3

(this is on Ubuntu oneiric beta2.


Nicolas


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