HOWTO: Install BitPim

[oldgeekster]

Hi Folks,

Running Karmic on my older Toshiba notebook and just purchased a LG enV3 from Verizon. Installed the older version of bitpim via the Ubuntu Software Center yesterday then (after reading this thread) opened a terminal and did a "sudo bitpim" - sure enough it was able to detect my phone on the "Other" setting after running it as root. (Won't work, but at least it talked to my enV3). I will overcome having to do that "sudo thang" later on, but there is another solution.

What I would like to do now is upgrade to the latest test version 1.0.7* of bitpim from bitpim.org which reportedly *does* cover the enV3 cell phone along with a ton of the newer phones out there. Unfortunately, there isn't a .deb package available there, nor anyplace else I looked. Tried/failed converting/installing their RPM version using alien multiple times.

Anybody know where I might find a bitpim-1.0.7.20090805.deb version of that package? Other suggestions?

TIA!
-=dave=-

[Njall]

Having just gotten the LG env Touch I installed BitPim v1.0.7 on Kubuntu Karmic (9.10). Here's what I did to finally get BitPim to start. YMMV.

1. Download the BitPim v1.0.7 RPM file bitpim-1.0.7-0.i386.rpm. While you're at it donate $5 to the BitPim project to say thanks!

2. In a terminal session:

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -d bitpim*.rpm
sudo dpkg -i bitpim*.deb
cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libtiff.so.4.2.1 libtiff.so.3
cd /lib
sudo ln -s libexpat.so.1.5.2 libexpat.so.0
bitpim

3. You can add the BitPim link and icon to your KDE menu. However, KDE doesn't work with Windows ICO format. So I went to http://converticon.com/ and converted a copy of /usr/lib/BitPim-1.0.7/resources/bitpim.ico to a PNG which I then copied back to the BitPim resources directory.

The path for the bitpim program is: /usr/bin/bitpim

Have fun!

Nelson

[mohaned_nj]

thank's
i convert it to deb

[kittybrat]

Having just gotten the LG env Touch I installed BitPim v1.0.7 on Kubuntu Karmic (9.10). Here's what I did to finally get BitPim to start. YMMV.

1. Download the BitPim v1.0.7 RPM file bitpim-1.0.7-0.i386.rpm. While you're at it donate $5 to the BitPim project to say thanks!

2. In a terminal session:

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -d bitpim*.rpm
sudo dpkg -i bitpim*.deb
cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libtiff.so.4.2.1 libtiff.so.3
cd /lib
sudo ln -s libexpat.so.1.5.2 libexpat.so.0
bitpim

3. You can add the BitPim link and icon to your KDE menu. However, KDE doesn't work with Windows ICO format. So I went to http://converticon.com/ and converted a copy of /usr/lib/BitPim-1.0.7/resources/bitpim.ico to a PNG which I then copied back to the BitPim resources directory.

The path for the bitpim program is: /usr/bin/bitpim

Have fun!

Nelson

This didn't work for me.
I'm on Karmic, if that makes a difference.

[ShadowGazer]

Followed all directions in post, didn't work, when trying to run bitpim, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/ConsoleSetLibPath.py", line 35, in <module>
  File "src/bp.py", line 20, in <module>
  File "src/bp_cli.py", line 21, in <module>
  File "src/bp_config.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "src/guihelper.py", line 23, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
    from wx._core import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 4, in <module>
    import _core_
  File "ExtensionLoader_wx__core_.py", line 12, in <module>
ImportError: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I am using version 10.04 (beta 2 I think)

[thelunchboxosu]

When I convert the rpm with alien I get this message in the terminal:

Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
		xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/bitpim
dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: couldn't find library libpython2.5.so.1.0 needed by debian/bitpim/usr/lib/BitPim-1.0.7/pyexpat.so (ELF format: 'elf32-i386'; RPATH: '').
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps returned exit code 2
make: [binary-arch] Error 1 (ignored)
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear in package's architecture list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol returned exit code 255
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: `bitpim-1.0.7': No such file or directory

Any ideas? I'm new to Linux so I have no idea what any of this means.

[bpettis]

Okay, I followed OP instructions, and then JerMe's instructions on page 2. When I run "bitpim" or even "sudo bitpim" I receive this error:


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/ConsoleSetLibPath.py", line 35, in <module>
File "src/bp.py", line 20, in <module>
File "src/bp_cli.py", line 21, in <module>
File "src/bp_config.py", line 19, in <module>
File "src/guihelper.py", line 23, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
from wx._core import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 4, in <module>
import _core_
File "ExtensionLoader_wx__core_.py", line 12, in <module>
ImportError: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


In case it helps, heres the results of lsusb:


Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04e8:6640 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Usb Modem Enumerator
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[bpettis]

Good News!

I was able to solve the problem and get bitpim to launch by downloading "compat-expat" as a rpm (from here), use alien to convert to a .deb, and installed it.

Then, when I ran "bitpim" again, the program ran without a hitch!

[dougs510]

I also had problems with "libexpat.so". I just replicated the softlink and now all is well.

[Punkristo]

This is the error I'm getting:

pag@pag-laptop:~/Desktop/bitpim$ sudo alien -d bitpim-1.0.7-0.i386.rpm
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package bitpim: postinst postrm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
mkdir: cannot create directory `bitpim-1.0.7': File exists
unable to mkdir bitpim-1.0.7: at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 257.