gtkpod on ubuntu

[JoeHill]

chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote: 

> The primary hard drive on my production computer died. Yeah, the one a few 
> of you helped me to install gtkpod (and other things) onto. I've already 
> installed ubuntu onto my daughter's machine. Since it's her iPod (which I 
> gave to her last week) I thought I'd install gtkpod onto her own computer so 
> she can use it. I installed gtkpod with apt-get install gtkpod. I guess 
> that's what we use on the debian side of things. [Now that I've been finally 
> talked into trying a debian-type OS I've been informed 'Ubuntu is not 
> Debian'.] Sigh. I digress. Another reason I want to get gtkpod going on the 
> ubuntu machine is that if I like ubuntu then I'll just install that on the 
> new hard drive I got for my production machine. That will get me out of the 
> rpm-based distros (on half of our computers anyway). 
> 
> The ubuntu computer sees the iPod and mounts it on /dev/sdb1 
> 
> gtpod installed okay and sees the songs on the iPod. However, trying to add 
> a song from the hard drive, I hit 'Save Changes' and it fails on the 
> conversion (from .ogg to .mp3). 
> 
> I don't know whether I'm supposed to go through the whole svn installation 
> of libgpod (and the other stuff that I did that I can't retrace until I 
> re-install Thunderbird on and load the saved mail file from backup) or if 
> the process will be different on ubuntu. 
> 
> Any ideas for first steps would be appreciated.

I checked on my Ubuntu 7.10 machine and by default the version available for
libgpod (which gtkpod uses to read and write to the iPod) is 0.5.2. You need
0.6.0.

I would first check around for Ubuntu packages for the latest gtkpod andl
libgpod, I'm sure some of the more experienced Ubuntu users on here would know
how to add repositories for 'testing' packages, which is where new gtkpod and
libgpod should be (I think).

Alternatively, it is a lot easier to build source or svn on Debian/Ubuntu. You
can do 'apt-get build-dep libgpod' and same for gtkpod to get everything you
need instead of hunting around at random like we were doing before for
dependencies.

Check on the Ubuntu forums for mentions of 'libgpod', guaranteed someone has
either build packages for Gutsy or done a detailed howto.

-- 
JoeHill
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