Install latest version of package on debian

mahcih · February 20, 2017, 9:29am

Hello guys,

I’m trying to install the latest version of the bluez package which is 5.43, but when I run the command sudo apt-get install bluez I get the version 5.23. Anyone who had the same issue with another package or the same one?`

Thanks

anon91830841 · February 20, 2017, 9:29am

hi,

this is generally how Linux distro work. For each ‘major’ version of the distro, the distro choses the version of each individual component/package (such as bluez). For Debian ‘jessie’ which is the version of Debian that we currently use in our images, bluez version is 5.23.

You can see all the various bluez version in the various Debian releases here:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bluez

If you start picking up newer (or older) version of packages, then you are customizing the distro. It is possible to do, most of the time, but that requires a bit of backporting.

Because Debian has a fairly long release cycle (~2 years) we have recently decided to switch our images from Debian stable (aka jessie) to Debian testing (e.g. stretch right now). The next release, in March, will be based on Debian stretch, and as such will have bluez 5.43 (and generally speaking, most linux packages should be up-to-date).

mahcih · February 20, 2017, 9:29am

Hi ndec,

thank you for the quick answer

barryb · February 20, 2017, 9:29am

Hello @Hicham,

If you want BlueZ 5.43 then you have to install it from source.

I use 5.43 as I want to have access to the DBus API for BlueZ.
My notes on how I install 5.43 are at:

github.com

ukBaz/python-bluezero/blob/main/docs/install_bluez.rst

################
Installing Bluez
################

.. warning::
    This page is not included in Bluezero documentation any more because the
    versions in most Linux distributions and new enough that this isn't required.
    It has been left here in the source tree as a general reference should
    someone doing development want to move to a newer version that in their
    Linux distribution.

Overview
--------

Bluezero relies on the dbus interface of BlueZ.  This library requires the
features provided by BlueZ version **5.43** and later.
If the Linux OS you have installed does not have the correct version then
these instructions are intended to jump start the switching to
a newer version of BlueZ which will need to be built from source.

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Regards,
Barry

mahcih · February 20, 2017, 9:29am

Thanks Barry