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Has anyone been able to successfully install Bluez 5.X on Ubuntu 14.04? I need to upgrade it to use a new Bluetooth mouse, but I've tried several times and it seems to break the OS. Thanks in advance for any help!

Ian Paul
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  • What did you try and what was the problem? – Pilot6 Aug 17 '15 at 14:14
  • @Pilot6 I confirm that I have seen this too. It seems to not install successfully (in the process, disabling the sound of the device) and it breaks the package manager. Forcing a purge of BlueZ 5 and then reinstalling BlueZ 4 seems to fix things, but there is definitely something going wrong with the BlueZ 5 installation. – d3pd Dec 20 '15 at 16:40

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Try this:

sudo apt-get purge bluez # remove old versions
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vidplace7/bluez5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bluez

This adds the PPA for Bluez 5 and installs BlueZ.

Aleksandar Stefanović
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    Please note that this breaks "all" graphical User Interfaces, as those are programmed to work with bluez version 4. – Fredrik Wendt Dec 29 '15 at 21:39
  • Additionally gattool is not part of that ppa right now. there is some discussion about wether to include it in bluez5 or have it in a seperate package. Debian and redhat/fedora seem to have it included for now. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720486 – Dennis Nolte Jan 29 '16 at 10:20