As I did never write a howto before, I hope this is good enough to understand I just show the steps I did to make my ipod touch working (sync video/music...) with gtkpod on my Debian testing system as the default packages did not work for me. Note: This howto uses packages from the unstable section of debian! Use every package and this howto at you own risk - it worked for me but that doesn't mean it will work for you. Worst case it might destroy your ipod's database. It may be that I had some packages preinstalled so i forgot to mention them here. Step 1 (install prerequisites): Code: apt-get build-dep libgpod gtkpod ifuse apt-get install git libsqlite3-dev Step 2 (get and install packages from sid/unstable): http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libimobiledevice-dev/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libimobiledevice1/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libplist1/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libplist-dev/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libusbmuxd-dev/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libusbmuxd1/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/usbmuxd/download Code: dpkg -i usbmuxd*.deb lib*.deb Step 3 (get and install ifuse): Instead of make / make install i used "checkinstall" to generate debian packages. Code: git clone git://git.sukimashita.com/ifuse.git cd ifuse ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make make install Step 4 (get and install libgpod): Code: git clone git://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/gtkpod/libgpod cd libgpod ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make WARNING!! amarok and some other apps use libgpod4. if you use checkinstall as i did, you have to change package name to libgpod4 and remove libgpod-common and libgpod-dev to avoid conflicts during installation. make install Step 5 (get and install gtkpod): Code: git clone git://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/gtkpod/gtkpod cd gtkpod ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make make install Step 6 (make mountpoint and make it user-mountable - replace "myuser" with your username): Code: mkdir /media/ipod chown myuser:fuse /media/ipod usermod -a -G fuse myuser Step 7 (prepare ipod/iphone): You have to completely log out (even end kde or gnome) and relogin before being able to mount as user Code: # (re)plug in your ipod/iphone # mount ipod/iphone ifuse /media/ipod # get serial info of the device sudo lsusb -v | grep -i iSerial -> ea343c78a3c22dec235eca4fc40131c020babc75 (e.g.) # read ext sysinfo and write file ipod-read-sysinfo-extended ea343c78a3c22dec235eca4fc40131c020babc75 /media/ipod You can now run gtkpod and (hopefully) use it! Remember you always have to run the ifuse mount command before starting gtkpod the first time. Plase sync your ipod/iphone with itunes on a windows pc before using it with gtkpod. Amarok (at least v2) does still not work with ipod/iphone after following these steps - if you get it to work, please tell me how To put your ogg files on the ipod they need to be converted to mp3 - gtkpod does this if you have installed the packages "vorbis-tools" and "lame" (found in debian-multimedia). If you get an error 6 on ogg to mp3 converting try changing Code: decoder="oggdec" ; options="--output - --" ;; to Code: decoder="oggdec" ; options="-Q --output - --" ;; in the file /usr/share/gtkpod/scripts/gtkpod-convert-common.sh
