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bluez-pin

Asked by garner on 2008-03-26

I run this in terminal :
sudo apt-get install gnome-bluetooth bluez-pin
and get the results below:

Package bluez-pin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package bluez-pin has no installation candidate

How do I fix this problem?

Thanks!

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu Edit question

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Solved by:: Bhavani Shankar

Solved:: 2008-03-27

Last query:: 2008-03-27

Last reply:: 2008-03-27

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said on 2008-03-26:

Hello

There is no bluez-pin package for ubuntu..

To get bluetooth working for ubuntu install the gnome bluetooth package

This package contains tools for managing and manipulating Bluetooth devices using the GNOME desktop.

and you can also install bluez-utils package, which contains some daemons related to bluetooth

and to install type

sudo apt-get install bluez-utils

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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garner (juneaualaska2000) said on 2008-03-26:

Bhavani Shankar.

I ran sudo apt-get install bluez-utils and it said that it was already installed and I installed the kde control module for bluetooth and am having problems now getting it to pair my device, stereo headphones.

Can you help?

Thanks!

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said on 2008-03-27:

Hello again..

This is a problem with kbluetooth I have heard often that for getting a persistent connection with your headset/headphones, you have to resort to a Gnome application called gbtsco, which discovers the device, and connects to it at the click of a button. Even Kbluetooth then shows the little blue icon in the taskbar then, and everything's fine...

Download gbtsco from here..

http://www.stgraber.org/download/projects/gbtsco/gbtsco_0.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb

and save the file and double click it and it will install (as Its a .deb file)

More info:

http://www.stgraber.org/2007/05/20/gbtsco-already-release-02/

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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garner (juneaualaska2000) said on 2008-03-27:

Thanks for your continued support Bhavani Shankar,

But I still get the message below when I try to access my headphones and having installed the software as directed by you. The set of numbers in the error message are the specific identifiers for my particular device.

"obex://[00:1c:ef:08:92:2d]" is not a valid location.

I tried using the solution that was put forth by Alexander Rodseth in question #8379 on 2007-06-18 and have had limited success in that it will "sometimes" pair which means that it does not always work, but then the problem is that I receive no sound through the head phones when I start to play audio with VLC Media player or Xine movie player.

Any further suggestions?

Thanks!

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