How to connect Apple Wireless Keyboard to Ubuntu Linux (Bluetooth)?

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Alexey Kot2016-04-19 10:15:34

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Alexey Kot, 2016-04-19 10:15:34

Hey!
I have ubuntu 16.04 and a previous generation Apple Magick Wireless Keyboard.
I can't connect it via bluetooth. As I understand it, everything rests on the fact that for pairing you need to enter a pin code. But the standard Bluetooth manager in Ubuntu does not show it, and the Gnomovsky one constantly crashes. I read what can be done from the console through bluez-compat, but this package is no longer available in current versions of ubuntu.
Does anyone have a positive experience or thoughts on how to help this trouble? Thanks

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Vladimir Kuzin, 2016-04-19
@Bobson8

Perhaps the package is not available in the standard repositories, but what prevents you from downloading it from the packages.ubuntu.com/precise/bluez-compat network and installing it manually, with dependencies, of course?

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Yuri Chudnovsky, 2016-04-19
@Frankenstine

ubuntu 16.04 is a beta version, since you already encountered a bug in beta, please create a corresponding bug report, you are using beta for that :)