bluez : Can not install bluez-utils

Question

Dose someone try "sudo apt-get install bluez-utils" successfully on raspberry pi ?

and I get this message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package bluez-utils 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-utils has no installation candidate

Solution 1

In future it is important that you give information on which version of the operating system you are running. However, making an educated guess, I think you may be running raspbian Jessie.

In Jessie, the bluez-utils package has been removed. I believe you simply need to run sudo apt-get install bluez.

Solution 2

Assuming Jessie, as the previous answer...

In Jessie, the bluez-utils package has been removed. Bluez 5 either includes it or has all of the functionality of it, I'm not sure which.

Using aptitude (apt-get) as the previous answer will give you a very old version (Bluez 5.23 currently), but is the easiest way. If you want the latest version, please find it on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth and install the tarball. i.e.:

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.49.tar.xz
tar xvf bluez-5.49.tar.xz
cd bluez-5.49
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo reboot

Installing Bluez appears very finicky, and I suggest the more detailed tutorial at https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/66540/installing-bluez-5-44-onto-raspbian/83835#83835 if you decide to go this route.

Solution 3

I had the same issue. Then I tried to download a tar and build it myself however the ./configure script could not finish.
Turned out I was missing dependencies.
Running

sudo apt-get install -y libusb-dev libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev

fixed it for me. I followed these instructions and it worked.

However I downloaded a version 5.52 as it was the newest available at the time.
If you need to wget a tar file and your source doesn't work you can try getting it here.