How do I install iTunes on Ubuntu 9.10?

[crustygizzards]

I'm knew at Ubuntu and I want to download iTunes. I have Wine installed but i don't know where to go from here. Any help?

[phillw]

Hi, and welcome to the forums,

for all things wine, head over to http://www.winehq.org/

type in itunes in the search area and you will see which versions of itunes work well, and which do not.

They also have a an active forum.

As a little note, even though 10.04 Lucid Lynx is not due out until the end of April, in its testing stage 'strange' things are happening to i-stuff ;-)

Pop over to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1416507 for what is going on :-)

Regards,

Phill.

[donaldt]

OK, today update manager came up with a new version of wine. I let it install all of the packages in the update. Thought I would test the new version so here goes.

Never had any luck installing i-tunes previously, but now was able to install i-tunes version 9.0.3.15. The installation went great and it installed quick time and added two desktop icons, iTunes and iTunes.lnk. so far so good.

Next tried to launch iTunes. Message: iTunes was not installed correctly. Please re-install iTunes. error: 7

Went through a complete install once again, same result as before. iTunes installed succesfully. Tried once again to launch iTunes. message 7 once again.

I think we are getting close to having an operable iTunes program on Ubunutu 9.10 under Wine, but we are not quite there yet.

Anyone able to add ideas or advice on what else we might try? I have a dual boot with windows 7 and I can use that to synch my little iPod Shuffle, so I am not desparate for access in Ubuntu, but it is one more reason to keep windows on a computer.

donaldt

[5735guy]

Take a look at these open source options

Rhythmbox
http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/

gtkpod (good for syncing)
http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html

Songbird
http://www.getsongbird.com/

aTunes
http://www.atunes.org/

[IcarusR]

Another open source option

Amarok

http://amarok.kde.org/