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Originally Posted by jekvb
When I 've got some extra time I 'll give it a try in a few weeks.
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I was too curious to wait that long, so here's my installation and test of the OBEX filesystem, OBEX FTP-tools and libraries on Fedora Linux Core 13 with a Gnome desktop.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the OBEX toolkit was already submitted to the yum repository, so compiling code won't be necessary.
[root@nets ~]# yum search obex
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
=============================== Matched: obex ====
obexfs.i686 : FUSE based filesystem using ObexFTP
obexftp.i686 : Tool to access devices via the OBEX protocol
obexftp-devel.i686 : Header files and libraries for obexftp
obexftp-libs.i686 : Shared libraries for obexftp
openobex.i686 : Library for using OBEX
openobex-apps.i686 : Applications for using OBEX
openobex-devel.i686 : Files for development of applications which will use OBEX
osso-gwobex.i686 : Obex helper library
osso-gwobex-devel.i686 : Development files for osso-gwobex
perl-obexftp.i686 : Perl library to access devices via the OBEX protocol
python-obexftp.i686 : Python library to access devices via the OBEX protocol
ruby-obexftp.i686 : Ruby library to access devices via the OBEX protocol
gvfs-obexftp.i686 : ObexFTP support for gvfs
obex-data-server.i686 : D-Bus service for Obex access
obexd.i686 : D-Bus service for Obex Client access
gnome-user-share.i686 : Gnome user file sharing
After installing these packages, you may enable the Bluetooth-service, and in the meantime you should off course have activated Bluetooth on your PocketBook device.
A Bluetooth icon now has appeared on your Linux desktop, and by clicking on it you 'll be able to setup, manage and scan for bluetooth devices in the vecinity.
After half a minute or so, the PocketBook device is found and it's MAC address is shown. You can choose to connect and "pair" with your PocketBook device and send files to it through Nautilus file- and networkmanager.
When you inspect the file transfer on the other side at the PocketBook device, you 'll find that the sent-files automagically end up into the root of the Device, thus not onto the SD Card.
Though this is a Fedora specific setup, I assume that the setup on other Linux flavours like CentOS, RedHat or Ubuntu, will be likewise trivial.
Regards, Kuba