Bluetooth support not installed by default on Hardy

[Adilson Oliveira]

Noticed today that bluetooth wasn't active in my Asus G1 notebook because bluez-utils wasn't installed. Once I installed the package the device was correctly detected and bluetooth was activated. I can't be sure if this was corrected recently as hardy Alpha 2 was installed in this notebook and it's being updated daily ever since. Oddly enough, the bluetooth manager was available in the System/Preferences menu.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

bluez-utils is installed by default when ubuntu-desktop (or other such meta packages like kubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop) is installed.

Please tell us if that was not the case with you. Also tell us what kind of installation did you try.

[Adilson Oliveira (agoliveira)]

In my laptop I have been running Hardy Heron installed from scratch since beta 2. Perhaps this was a bug in the update sequence. I'll try to make a fresh install this weekend to see if this happens.

[Adilson Oliveira (agoliveira)]

I meant Alpha 2 and not Beta 2 above

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

The full bluetooth stack is preinstalled on Intrepid. If you continue to have problems, re-open.
bluez (4.12-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Initial Release. (LP: #274950)
    - This package replaces bluez-utils and bluez-libs source packages.
    - It was generated by merging the contents of bluez-utils and bluez-libs
      and updating content.
    - Legacy functionality for hidd, dund, and pand are not present, and
      have been removed from all configuration files.
  * This release introduces encryption (LP: #182191)
  * debian/patches:
    - bluez-utils-oui-usage.patch was borrowed from the Fedora 10 packaging.
    - sco-connect-git.patch was taken from bluez git shortly after 4.12 release.
      It should "help" with some sco headset issues.
  * debian/control:
    - Update different packages per upstream's recommendations.
    - Update conflicts/replaces for earlier packages.
    - Add a transitional bluez-utils package to help with the transition.

 -- Mario Limonciello < <email address hidden>> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:10:29 -0500