gtkpod on ubuntu

[Chris Aitken]

JoeHill wrote:

>Chris Aitken wrote: 
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>>JoeHill wrote:
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>whack
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>>>>Yeah, I installed that before I got the error. apt-get install
>>>>vorbis-tools. Funny you should mention that. I actually installed it to
>>>>support an application called audio-convert.That app is working for me. I
>>>>noticed that gtkpod does not have the iPod that is mine - it was called
>>>>iPod nano 4 GB video (or close to that) when we did the svn installs (et
>>>>al) on the fedora 7 machine (before the hard drive died). I probably have
>>>>to do all that svn stuff again - no? 
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>>>No, if you installed the gtkpod and libgpod from the ppa repo, that should do
>>>it. The only thing missing from the libgpod you installed is the ability to
>>>get the firewire ID of the Nano. You will need to do it manually, but it's
>>>not that difficult. From the libgpod README.sysinfo:
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>>>"The 2nd method requires more manual intervention. First, you need to get
>>>your firewire id manually. To do that, run "sudo lsusb -v | grep -i
>>>Serial" (without the "") with your iPod plugged in, this should print a 16
>>>character long string like 00A1234567891231. For an iPod Touch, this number
>>>will be much longer than 16 characters, the firewire ID is constituted by
>>>the first 16 characters. Once you have that number,
>>>create/edit /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo (if your iPod is mounted
>>>at /mnt/ipod). Add to that file the line below: FirewireGuid:
>>>0xffffffffffffffff (replace ffffffffffffffff with the string you obtained at
>>>the previous step and don't forget the trailing 0x before the string)
>>>Save that file, and you should be all set. Be careful when using apps which 
>>>lets you manually specify which iPod model you own, they may overwrite that 
>>>file when you do that. So if after doing that libgpod still seems to write 
>>>invalid content to the iPod, double-check the content of that SysInfo file to
>>>make sure the FirewireGuid line you added isn't gone. If that happens, readd
>>>it to the end of the file, and make sure libgpod rewrite the iPod content."
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>>Okay, so I skip (below) most of what I did on the fedora 7 box and skip 
>>to the last line? IO just don't want to put you guys through 
>>what's-my-next-step hell again.
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>>Chris
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>>a. remove the RPM's for gtkpod and libgpod.
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>Wait, now I'm confused. I thought the Nano was going to be used on the Ubuntu
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Yes, it is. Sorry, I just cut & pasted the stuff I did on the fedora 
machine. I know I won't be using rpm on  ubuntu. I would just see that 
step as remove gtkpod and libgpod, if necessary (apt-get remove or 
whatever).

>If not, then yes, follow the instructions for building svn. Only the 'make
>install' step needs to be run as root, and that's the last step. All else as
>user.
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So, so the steps (with a little modification) look okay for ubuntu. If 
so, I'll get started on that today.

>From what you wrote it looks like you've got everything you need in terms of
>dependencies...except that gtk error. If you're still getting that, you need
>the gtk2 devel package, who the heck knows what it's called on Fedora but you
>can do a search for it using yum or the graphical package manager I would
>presume. Someone posted a pretty detailed yum howto in regards to this IIRC.
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I'm installing on ubuntu this time.

Chris

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