gtkpod on ubuntu

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sun Dec 2 00:30:30 UTC 2007


On December 1, 2007 06:51:01 pm 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.

Do you have the universe and multiverse repositories enabled? You'll 
need those for the liblame and lame packages. It could be that the 
conversion fails if liblame isn't installed to do the transcoding. I'd 
check that first, then take a look for .deb files and a howto on the 
ubuntu forums.

Jamon

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