I am finally going to add this to an article, even though I have had this 1rst generation ipod touch since release day and have used it with Linux since day 1……
To use your ipod with fluxbox requires three packages.
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sudo apt-get install gtkpod libimobiledevice-utils libimobiledevice1
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You then have to mount your ipod touch and since fluxbox doesn’t really have a way to do that….I made a script:
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#!/bin/bash # # mount ipod touch script by ed wiget sudo /usr/local/sbin/usbmuxd -v -u & DETECTED="echo -e `ideviceinfo` | wc -l" #echo -e "is it ok to continue with the mount command?" #read answer #if [ $answer == 'y' ] if [ ${DETECTED} -ge 1 ]; then echo "ipod detected...mounting" ifuse /media/ipod else echo "ipod detection failed....exiting" exit fi
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After it is mounted, you can then run gtkpod and it should auto detect it. It will create a database of the song hashes.
During usage, if you receive an error with gtkpod during song export that says:
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CRITICAL **: transfer_track_glist_between_itdbs: assertion `!new_tracks' failed Segmentation fault
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Restart gtkpod, select the playlist you were exporting and on the export dialog box, uncheck “Check for duplicates”. Now exporting will work.
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