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Installing Bluetooth tools in Raspberry Pi

Hi there!
Following my previous post on how to get started with the Raspberry Pi "headless mode" I'll now show you how to install the Bluetooth tools.
On the project that I'm working on right now I'll be using Bluetooth with the Raspberry Pi so that later I can connect to several devices via Bluetooth. For this purpose I have ordered some USB Bluetooth dongles from ebay and some HC-05 Bluetooth modules, also from ebay.

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The first thing to do is type "lsusb" in the terminal to see if your USB Bluetooth dongle is being recognized. As an example, the ones I ordered from ebay show up as:
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

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