Re: [Bluez-users] Desperate newbie

["Gary Martin" <gary_martin_au@yahoo.com.au>]

Thanks Tom. But this whole exercise was to find the numerical
class codes for "computer" and "mobile phone"

 --- Thomas Chiverton <thomas.chiverton@bluefinger.com> wrote: >
On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 11:01 am, Gary Martin wrote:
> > 2 - I use GNOME, so I imagine there would be a lot of new
> packages
> > to incorporate (KDE?)
> 
> Your Linux distribution should include a package manager to help
> you with 
> this. You mention debian, so apt-get install kde-bluetooth or
> similar should 
> work.
I use Synaptic, which is a GUI for apt-get, but kde-bluetooth is
not in the powerpc repository. So I would have to build from
source.

> GNOME and KDE are two desktop enviroments ('Windows'). I know
> you can run 
> GNOME apps in KDE, which is what I do, but I don't know it it
> works vica 
> versa.
Yes, I run Kile under GNOME and it works fine.
> 
> > 3 - When it comes to Linux, what is "simple enough" on an x86
> > desktop might not be simple on a PowerPC laptop
> 
> Download.
> unzip
> ./configure
> make 
> make install
I have looked into compiling packages in the past, and I
understand the basic configure make install instructions. But I
got lost (or lost interest) when they mention "flags" Until now, I
have never needed or wanted a package that wasn't in the Debian
PowerPC binary repository
> 
> The kde-bluetooth mailing list is very helpfull too - though you
> are right, 
> you might be the first person to try on PowerPC with GNOME :-)
> If so, great, 
> try it and report back - open source relies a lot on people
> trying things and 
> saying how it broke.

Alright! I will give it a go --- will have to wait until Saturday
though
> 
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