Compiling bluetooth-alsa on Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope

If you ever wanted to use your bluetooth as an A2DP source on Linux, here is the workaround to compile bluetooth-alsa on Ubuntu 9.04. The compilation does not work out of the box, as you need to use automake-1.9 and aclocal-1.9. Ubuntu installs versions 1.10 by default.

First, read through the build documentation at the bluetooth-alsa website. You should be able to compile and install sbc and download plugz without problems (you may need to install several "-dev" packages, as listed on the website). Then, before starting the "bootstrap" for plugz, you should first install the package "automake-1.9" via apt-get or the package manager. Then edit the file "bootstrap" in the plugz-directory and change "aclocal" to "aclocal-1.9" and "automake" to "automake-1.9". The line should look like this:

aclocal-1.9 -I /usr/share/aclocal-1.9 && autoheader && automake-1.9 --add-missing --copy && autoconf

Then complete the installation:

./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
sudo make install

The a2dpd daemon has to be started as root on Ubuntu (see here, also a howto for configuration of Ubuntu to use a2dp as the default audio device).

Have fun!