gtkpod compile error - PCLinuxOS [solved]

[jlc]

Odd that it wont find it,

 

try and do a couple things,

 

remove all the aac/faad packages and re-install them.

 

You might also try going through this

 

http://clug.net.nz/index.php/IpodSupportUnderLinux

[kmc77]

I uninstalled and reinstalled anything aac/faad related, with no progress. The link provided resulted in a blank page and the index page of the site had no link to the same.

[jlc]

Odd, I just opened it up from the link, maybe its slow and takes a bit to open it?

 

Here is what is on the page:

 

As there's obviously a new release of Ipods about to happen ( I hear on the grapevine it includes a phone as well ), the old ipod minis were going real cheap over at Dick Smiths. So I bought one. The downside - there had to be one - was that the 4GB ones were only available in pink. Well, a green latex cover has made it look a bit better... sort of.

 

Of course, I just had to get it working under linux. It was a lot easier than I expected. Being extremely impatient, and wanting to use it now, I did start it up first time using the bosses XP machine, so I don't know about the reformatting and all that stuff. But, now I've filled it with loads of music ( including some of her motown stuff ): ), I've decided to get it working on my workstation.

 

This box runs FC4, which is kept up to date using yum, but it does have a bit of a non-standard kernel as everything's formatted with reiserfs. Apart from that, nothing particularly interesting there.

Assumptions made in this article...

 

1. Plugging in your ipod leads to an automount. My ws mounts it at /media/ipod using udev.

2. the sudo package is installed. If not, you'll have to su to perform these commands.

3. The standard development environment is installed ( make, gcc )

4. I am writing these instructions to build from source, as I can't test the various package managers available or what versions they use.

 

Lets go...

 

First off, you almost certainly haven't got AAC support, just mp3. You can implement this by utilising a partial install of the mp4v2 library. ( try the command 'find / -name mp4.h' and if it's found, then skip this bit )

 

Download the source from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=14086

current version is 1.3.

 

tar xfz mpeg4ip-x.x.tar.gz

cd mpeg4ip-x.x/

./bootstrap --disable-server

cp mpeg4ip_config.h mpeg4ip_version.h /usr/local/include

cp include/mpeg4ip.h /usr/local/include

cd lib/mp4v2

edit Makefile:

replace the line "SUBDIRS = . test util" with "SUBDIRS = ."

make

sudo make install

 

This will allow you to build the gtkpod package with full support.

 

To do this... Get the source from sourceforge... http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67873

Current version is 0.94.0

 

tar xfz gtkpod-x.x.x.tar.gz

cd gtkpod-x.x.x

./configure

make

sudo make install

 

Right, we've got all of the tools that we need to access the ipod, so let's do it.

 

Plug in your ipod, and wait until it mounts. I use the udev package, so it mounts at /media/ipod. (This is not where the gtkpod program defaults to, which is /mnt/ipod. You'll need to change the configuration to find it once it's started).

 

Then start the gtkpod program, and a nice gui should appear. All should now be fine. Ctrl-P will allow you to modify the mount point of your ipod. Then highlight your ipod and click on the read button.

 

I have found two problems with this... it doesn't yet support podcasting, and (most annoyingly), it doesn't seem to see iTunes servers, so you can only load your ipod from local directories.

 

(Added by NickRout - podcasting in linux is handled pretty well by a very short bash script called bashpodder. I don't have an ipod, but if you tell bashpodder to place the files it downloads into the directory where you store your other music, it should get uploaded to the ipod on the next synchronisation)

 

NB. I got most of this info from googling for it. However, none of the examples I found worked out of the box. The above commands worked fine for me.

[kmc77]

cybrjackle, you're awesome. That page that you coppied had the solution.

 

I had to uninstall the libmp4v2 and the faac (along with about 20 other apps that depended upon them) and replace them with the mpeg4ip. I was then able to compile gtkpod with support for the m4v video files. Now I just need to go back and reinstall mplayer, k3b and ffmpeg, and everything will be good.

 

Thanks again cybr.

[jlc]

Your welcome

 

Keep in mind, something I do with software outside of the "distro" is to have an apps dir in my home. that way if i want the distros gtkpod i have it and i can build my own with special needs something else mods to it, like what your doing. That way I also don't take the chance of messing up other programs. Like when I started to help you with gtkpod, i put it in

 

./configure --prefix=$HOME/apps

 

This will create all the bin/sbin/blah/rah/rah stuff in my apps dir, installed by me (not root) and ran controlled by me. That way you could do the same with say that mpeg4ip in your apps.

 

I haven't taken a look at the compile options for it, but you would do the same for it

 

cd mpeg4ip

/configure --prefix=$HOME/apps

 

plus any options you might see from ./configure --help that you want to add in. then build your gtkpod in apps also.