Problem installing on RPI5 -> create installable package?

[bromic1]

blueman: 2.4.2
BlueZ: 5.66
Distribution: Raspberry Pi OS 64bit
Desktop environment: Debian Bookworm

Hi @cschramm, could you pls also create an installable package for Python 3.11, arm64 for the package manager?
I have the problem that I cannot get the latest version installed by myself. I added /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages to PYTHONPATH and started the installation with --prefix=/usr.
I still get failures during starting blueman-sendto which says like timeouts during calling StartServiceByName for org.blueman.Applet... Blueman applet needs to be running...

In the included version 2.3.5 there is for some reason no (re)search button in blueman-sendto. So it does only search 1 cycle when I start the app. When the device is not found I would have to restart the app.

EDIT: I got it to work by starting the applet manually but the (re)search button is still not there... So maybe this is another issue?

[cschramm]

Are you referring to https://blueman.cschramm.eu/debian/? I don't think I can provide arm64 there with reasonable effort as the packages get built on an x86_64 server. You can grab Debian's 2.4.1-1. There won't be 2.4.2 for Python 3.11, though, as Debian is on 3.12 now (2.4.1+b1 is the rebuild for that).

You can easily build the package yourself for your architecture and Python version e.g. obtaining it with git clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian/blueman.git and running dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc inside it (apt-get build-dep blueman can help with the build dependencies if the distribution's package isn't too old).

[stephematician]

Thanks for this comment. Building the Debian package from https://salsa.debian.org/debian/blueman.git ended up being the easiest option for me. As far as I am aware, it wasn't an option for me to use https://blueman.cschramm.eu/debian/ as my system has Python 3.12 (and only 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11 were provided by that APT repo). I was also able to compile and install using the source, however the package approach was better at placing the installed files out of the box (compared to fiddling with site-packages etc).