[H-GEN] Fwd: iTunes on Linux?

[Nick Lawrence]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
> wrote:

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> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 16:29 +1000, Nick Lawrence wrote:
> > I looked at gtkpod and it does not work with iOS 5 which is what all
> > generations of the iPad run.
> >
> > So gtkpod will not work for me.
>
> The library that Linux uses to talk to iOS is libimobiledevice.
> Underneath the hood, gtkpod, clementine, rhythmbox and amarok (via
> lohgpod) all use this library.  So if that library won't talk to your
> device none of your programs will.
>
> The home page for libimobiledevice is http://www.libimobiledevice.org/
> On there you will also see on there this release note:
>
>   22.03.2012: libimobiledevice-1.1.2.tar.bz2 (unstable) for developers
>   has been officially released. Most prominent is iOS 5 support, ....
>
> So, it iOS5 is supported in as of 1.1.2.  Debian is stable is currently
> on 1.0.2, testing (the next version of Debian is 1.1.1).  So neither of
> these will work.
>
> The latest stable release of Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04) also uses
> 1.1.1, so it won't work either.  The next planned release of Ubuntu,
> Quantal Quetzal (12.10) currently has 1.1.4 - so it will work.  But you
> would have to be game to run it.
>
> If you are using Debian or Ubuntu, you can bring along a machine to
> Humbug and I will try to compile and install 1.1.4 on it for you.  You
> don't have to be too game to do that.
>


I'm planning to attend HUMBUG this saturday (13th Oct), could we
give this a go then?

Ta,
Nick
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