Comments on: Sync iPhone in Linux [Ubuntu]

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Genius thanks. I’m on Ubuntu 11.04 and my phone just wouldn’t mount – it should work out of the box!! Followed most of your instructions and now it works. Thanks very much – been trying to fix this for hours and hours.

By: Cockneynutjob1987

Cockneynutjob1987 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:02:00 +0000

right im about to pull my hair out over this. my iphone 4 (4.2.1) is jailbroken, i have been able to get ubuntu and rhythmbox to identify the iphone and i can look though the songs on there BUT!!!!! when i drag and drop or click sync entire library the bar at the bottom says syncing but when i go on my iphone it isnt there, how ever if i click on the icon on my destop and go into the iphone that way the music is on there??????? i must be doing something wrong PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Enginejhammer

Enginejhammer — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:44:00 +0000

Using my iphone on linux has never been a problem…. works like a charm with rhythmbox…… But i sold my iphone cus i did not like.. I got LG optmus x2 instead…. Apple is just lifestyle statement product…. compared to Performance you get for its price is just pathetic…

iphone 4
1ghz apple processor
450 euro

LG optimus x2
1ghz dual core Nvidia tegra processor..
350 euro

By: MikeS.

MikeS. — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:09:00 +0000

Step 2. Next, we install all the required packages:

sudo apt-get install gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-fuse libgvfscommon0 ifuse libgpod-dev libgpod-common libiphone-utils libiphone0 python-iphone libplist++1 libplist-utils python-plist libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev libusbmuxd1 usbmuxd

did not work??
This was the result:
“eading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package libiphone0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
libimobiledevice1

Package python-iphone is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
python-imobiledevice

E: Unable to locate package libiphone-utils
E: Package ‘libiphone0′ has no installation candidate
E: Package ‘python-iphone’ has no installation candidate”

MikeS>

By: Wikale

Wikale — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:02:00 +0000

After having created the directory /mnt/iphone.
I tried the following:

$ ifuse /mnt/iphone

And in my terminal I rceived the following message:

GNUTLS ERROR: A TLS fatal alert has been received.

What is the problem? I do not understand this message.

By: Hnb

Hnb — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:21:00 +0000

now that you’ve done all that, make a script that does it all with a push of a button

By: Bre1586

Bre1586 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 06:41:00 +0000

I just ran this on Ubuntu 10.10 and it worked perfectly…. No Errors… if you follow exactly what it tells you to do.

By: electroyeti

electroyeti — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:50:58 +0000

worked great ! iphone 2g and linux 10.10 needed ipeth-utils instead of libiphone-utils

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:31:00 +0000

Does not work in Ubuntu 9.10…

me@Desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install ifuse
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ifuse: Depends: libusbmuxd1 but it is not going to be installed
libimobiledevice0: Depends: libusbmuxd1 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
me@Desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Correcting dependencies… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libplist0 libksane0 vorbis-tools libdiscid0 gtkpod id3v2
xmms2-plugin-musepack xmms2-plugin-avcodec xmms2-plugin-pulse
xmms2-plugin-mpg123 xmms2-plugin-karaoke xmms2-plugin-vocoder
xmms2-plugin-cdda xmms2-plugin-alsa xmms2-plugin-daap xmms2-plugin-apefile
xmms2-plugin-id3v2 xmms2-plugin-ao libusbmux0 python-mutagen
xmms2-plugin-airplay xmms2-plugin-faad xmms2-plugin-m3u xmms2-plugin-asf
xmms2-plugin-asx xmms2-plugin-cue xmms2-plugin-flv media-player-info
xmms2-plugin-gme xmms2-plugin-wavpack xmms2-plugin-curl xmms2-plugin-mad
sshfs xmms2-plugin-mp4 xmms2-plugin-flac xmms2-plugin-ofa xmms2-plugin-mms
xmms2-core xmms2-plugin-normalize xmms2-plugin-pls xmms2-plugin-oss
xmms2-plugin-sid xmms2-plugin-speex xmms2-plugin-smb libmpg123-0
xmms2-plugin-rss xmms2-plugin-ices xmms2-plugin-modplug xmms2-plugin-tta
xmms2-plugin-jack xmms2-plugin-vorbis gtkpod-data xmms2-plugin-xml
xmms2-plugin-xspf libid3-3.8.3c2a xmms2-plugin-html xmms2-plugin-icymetaint
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libusbmuxd1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libusbmuxd1
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/10.8kB of archives.
After this operation, 69.6kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 369680 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libusbmuxd1 (from …/libusbmuxd1_1.0.0-0ubuntu1~ppa2_i386.deb) …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libusbmuxd1_1.0.0-0ubuntu1~ppa2_i386.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite ‘/usr/lib/libusbmuxd.so.1.0.0′, which is also in package libusbmux0 0:1.0.0-rc1-1ubuntu3~j
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libusbmuxd1_1.0.0-0ubuntu1~ppa2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

By: Oskar149

Oskar149 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:58:03 +0000

https://sourceforge.net/projects/becia/
this is best way.

By: C_kainz

C_kainz — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:59:58 +0000

You guys are supposed to put the name of your ipod in place of “ipod”

By: jhemminger

jhemminger — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:32:59 +0000

Great post! I documented my experience following this, there were a few issues, mostly covered in the comments: http://bit.ly/b8ohQV

By: David Mader

David Mader — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:10:58 +0000

It says this method works “when installed on other Linux flavors”. What about OpenSUSE? I'm dying to be able to “access” my iPhone and it's been a huge pain with no success! Can you provide the steps to use on an OpenSUSE terminal?

By: imadgnr8

imadgnr8 — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:33:17 +0000

How do I edit the Fuse file?

By: sandro

sandro — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:51:44 +0000

I haven't understood usage of "ipod-read-sysinfo-extended"

the prompt says: usage: ipod-read-sysinfo-extended

I tried: ipod-read-sysinfo-extended 9fc91e227eff9859c00739e7674bc52a2adbaa0d /mnt/ipod

but: Couldn't resolve Device directory path on /mnt/ipod

what I'm doing wrong? I'm a novice...

By: amonkeyman

amonkeyman — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:17:35 +0000

I followed the steps, had to change lib-imobile… and chmod my /mnt/ipod to access it so I can now see my iPhone in gtkpod and rhythmbox but writing doesn't seem to work. Can someone document the steps for writing music to the phone?

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By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:43:34 +0000

just mkdir /mnt/ipod and then give the right permissions to write on it.

By: loosinghope

loosinghope — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:08:59 +0000

i have had the same problem on ubuntu 9.1 with iphone 3.1.2 This Dose Not Work

By: fauna5

fauna5 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:40:29 +0000

python-iphone is missing from karmic

By: GTDave

GTDave — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:40:20 +0000

same problem here, error: the mount point specified does not exist, havent got a clue about what to do now?? need to get this music off my iphone to back it up as if i sync my iphone on windows I will lose it all.

By: grododo

grododo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:52:08 +0000

I searched during some months … before read your post !!!! Thanks a lot, it works great : iphone 3GS / os 3.1 / Ubuntu 9.1 !! Good job

By: psychoticegg

psychoticegg — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:38:50 +0000

Doesn't work for me. Using iPhone 3gs and Ubuntu 9.1. can't find libiphone-utils so replaces it with libimobile-utils. and ifuse /mnt/ipod/ says “ERROR: the mount point specified does not exist” nothing works from that point on.

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