iPhone and Ubuntu

edanto

I'm considering wiping out a troublesome Windows XP installation and migrating over to Ubuntu, but the only solution that I can find for the iPhone is far too complicated for me to follow.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone

In Step 1, they say 'Add the Virtualbox repository and key as detailed on this page.'.... I'm lost already, even more so when I click on the link they have to 'this page'.

Does anyone have any easier options? My phone isn't jailbroken, but I'm sure that over the course of this evening I can find out what that means and the pros and cons.

My question, is anyone using the iphone with Ubuntu using a more simple method than the link above.... and do you know are there Windows-User level instructions anywhere?

booyah1024

try asking over here you may get more luck.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=32

but i'd imagine you are letting yourself into a world of pain trying to get it to run in a *nix based OS that isn't OS X unfortunately.

Stuxnet

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/20/syncing-your-iphone-or-itouch-with-linux/

good luck too you, if you haven't used linux before !!

edanto

Yeah this looks fairly complicated. May have to come up with another option.

Even with the simpler solution, if I can get it to work (which is unlikely), I'll still only be able to transfer music across.... as I've been thinking about it, I realise that what I really want is to have itunes running on Ubuntu, so that I can have a proper phone backup etc.

Turns out there are a small number of other people (21,000) that want the same thing and have signed a petition. I don't think that will sway Apple at all at all. Dang.

Thanks for the links folks.

Stuxnet

would you consider re-installing from scratch your current xp system ? usually fixes any problems, there is a win 7 90 day free trial running at the mo also, least you'd get your i tunes working for a while !

jd83

You could install virtual box, then run your old copy of xp on that and just use it for itunes. Then for everything else you can use ubuntu.

bnt

Quick update on this: I just did a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 installation, and my IPod Touch 2g (iOS 4) was recognised in Rhythmbox straight away. It basically worked as described on that Ubuntu page mentioned before.

You end up with the iPod showing up in Rhythmbox, and you can drag and drop files to it etc. I'm told Amarok also works for KDE users. Rhythmbox is also a podcast aggregator, but I still have to drag them over to the iPod after downloading, so I'm looking at ways to automate this.

It had to be a clean install, though - I couldn't get it to work on my other computer (netbook) that had been updated twice, even when I was positive I had installed all the right bits (libimobiledevice, gvfs etc.) as documented in a few places. Like the OP, iTunes was the last thing keeping my old XP installation going, but I wiped it to install Ubuntu. (Oops.)

Stuxnet

my iphone doesnt mount anymore in ubuntu, 10.04
any ideas,