gtkpod on ubuntu

[Christopher Aitken]

JoeHill wrote:

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>
> If you have the ppa repo enabled in your sources.list, then you do:
>
> apt-get install gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1
>   
Okay - done.
> That should also install the 'libgpod3' from the same repo.
>   
I see.
> There are a couple of things about libgpod and gtkpod on this repo. 1st, the
> way they did the version number Ubuntu will keep trying to 'update' gtkpod from
> the ppa version to the default version available in Ubuntu repos. I'm not sure
> how to stop that in any automated way.
>   
So, I'll have to do,

'apt-get install gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1'

from time to time?

> Also, as I mentioned above, the libgpod they have was not built with sgutils, so
> you need to get the firewire ID of your iPod manually. From the instructions it
> does not look too difficult, so that should not be a big deal.
Okay - that firewire ID persisted through the install of 
gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1

I'm okay now.

Chris
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