How to upgrade to the latest BlueZ version on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Question

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is using BlueZ ver4.98 which is not the latest version. I would like to upgrade to the latest BlueZ version. How can this be done?

Solution 1

Get the latest version from here.

E.G.:

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.30.tar.xz

Extract

tar xf bluez-5.30.tar.xz

Build

cd bluez-5.30
./configure
make

Then install with

sudo make install

or with checkinstall for a .deb package:

sudo apt-get install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall

Solution 2

For successful build as per @A.B's post, your system should meet following dependencies. I've Ubuntu 14.04.1 / Kernel 3.16.0

apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev

./configure
make
make install

If you get an error while ./configure saying configure: error: systemd system unit directory, try following solution by a user:mrd [original post].

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system --with-systemduserunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd

Comments

[David Foerster]

You should probably install the dependencies before ./configure-ing the build.

[Denis The Menace]

On Ubuntu 14.04 I had to install packages libreadline6 and libreadline6-dev in addition to given above

[Peter]

I'm trying to install 5.44 on a ubuntu-16.04.2 i get no error but the it cant find gatttool even after sudo make install what am i missing? its a live cd if that matters..

[edge-case]

This was useful for Ubuntu 18.04 also, but I had to install dependencies for the ./configure step to work. sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev