Installation of latest GNUpod

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GNUpod is a perl library for accessing an iPod device, by default only GNUpod 0.98.3 is included with Ubuntu Feisty. The following instruction will show how to create a distribution of the latest version of GNUpod (at the moment version 0.99.2).

  • 1. wget http://www.blinkenlights.ch/gnupod-dist/stable/gnupod-0.99.2.tgz
  • 2. tar xvzf gnupod-0.99.2.tgz
  • 3. sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev libssl-dev fakeroot devscripts
  • 4. apt-get source gnupod-tools
  • 5. sudo apt-get build-dep gnupod-tools
  • 6. cp -r -f -p gnupod-0.99.2/* gnupod-tools-0.98.3
  • 7. cd gnupod-tools-0.98.3
  • 8. dch -n
Change version to "0.99.2-1.1ubuntu1.0.0.yourname.0" at the end
Enter some appropriate description, for example "Updated with changes in 0.99.2" 
patch -p0 < gnupod-0.99.2-ubuntu.patch
  • 10. fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us
  • 11. sudo dpkg -i gnupod-tools_*.deb

You should now have the GNUpod library installed and ready to use.

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