wine users - Aug 2009 - Will Wine let me load iTunes in Ubuntu 9.04

I am attempting to totally move away from Windows and my main stumbling block is
iTunes.  I have been using it to download talking books to an iPod as I was
suffering from cateracts.  I had a look at gktpod but it fell well short of my
needs.

If I download Wine from the Ubuntu repository will I then be able to download
iTunes and obtain the functionality that I require?

Thanking you in anticipation

Remember first to read these instructions : http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

Then, have a look at the application database. The relevant entry for Itunes is
here :
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16848&iTestingId=43394

Have fun.

Das Letzte Einhorn

Many thanks for your kind reply.  

I downloaded Wine from the Ubuntu 9.04 repository and then went to Apple for the
iTunes download.  When asked I said that I wanted the download opened with Wine.
Up to that point everything appeared to work OK.

Wine was added to my applications list but when I attempted to access iTunes it
was no where to be seen.  I am offered Programs which extend out to notepad,
browse C drive, Configure Wine & Uninstall.

It would possibly appear that I have not explained my needs properly as if Wine
is asking me to browse C drive it is thinking Windows.  I do not have Windows on
this laptop only Ubuntu.

What I was hopeful of was that by using Wine I could then work with iTunes
without having to involve Windows at any stage of the operation. From what I
have seen this does not appear to be the case.

Can you please confirm my suspicions that I will have to beg borrow or steal a
Windows machine to use iTunes.  If I have got this wrong and can in fact achieve
my aim can you please take me by the hand and walk me through the procedure.

Again thanks for your assistance in this matter

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Scunnered<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I am attempting to totally move away from Windows and my main stumbling
block is iTunes. ?I have been using it to download talking books to an iPod as I
was suffering from cateracts. ?I had a look at gktpod but it fell well short of
my needs.
>
> If I download Wine from the Ubuntu repository will I then be able to
download iTunes and obtain the functionality that I require?
>
> Thanking you in anticipation
You'd have to patch wine for it. The installer is currently broken
(there's a hack on the AppDB for version 8), though IIRC 7 may work
now. iPod support isn't done yet, but there's a patch on the wiki on
http://wiki.winehq.org/USB.

How well it works, couldn't say. I'd say use Windows in a vm that
supports USB for iTunes.

-- 
-Austin

Scunnered wrote:
> 
> 
> It would possibly appear that I have not explained my needs properly as if
Wine is asking me to browse C drive it is thinking Windows.  I do not have
Windows on this laptop only Ubuntu.
> 
> 

The "drive C" referred to is Wine's fake drive C, located in
~/.wine. It is not looking for a real Windows install.

Austin

If the installer is down at the moment I will rather wait and see what develops.
I am reasonably new to Ubuntu and therefore Wine so am unsure what is involved.

As there is an update to Ubuntu due in October I will wait and see what happens
then.  It might be possible that the updated Wine is in the repository by then.

dimesio

OK the C drive is a fake and when I browse it it shows up 2 folders. Program
files and Windows. Program opens up with further folders Common and IE. The
Common file is empty and IE is an .exe file.  The Windows file opens up and
displays varying sub-folders a lot of which are showing a system 32 folder and
also others with reference to 32 in their name.  Although I asked that the
iTunes be opened by Wine there does not appear to be any sign of the iTunes in
any of the folders.  Any idea where it might hide?

I downloaded the iTunes for XP 64 should I try again by downloading the 32 bit
version or as my Ubuntu is 64 bit am I going to find further conflicts?

What best guidance can you offer ?  Should I wait until October and keep begging
or borrowing XP just for iTunes or what?

My thanks to you both for your kind assistance.

Many thanks Austin.

Looks very much like I will wait until October and then load the 32 bit versions
of both and see what happens.

I am totally determined to work only with Ubuntu so don't see any good
reason to purchase an OS from Microsoft just to run iTunes.

Will see if I can get things to work come October and if not I will be forced to
beg or borrow.

Once again thanks vm

Warren Dumortier

Many thanks for your advice.  As there is not too much time between now and 9.10
becoming available I will wait on it arriving.

This will be easier than a complete reinstall just now

Warren Dumortier

That is just what I wanted to hear.  I still think that I will wait until 9.10
is out as from what little I have seen leads me to believe that ext4 is going to
be an improvement on ext 3.

Provided there will be no conflict I propose to load 9.10 64 bit and then load
Jaunty 32 bit and Wine.  That I feel will be the best until such time as Wine
comes out in 64 bit version.

You have been a great help with your advice.  It now looks as I will be able to
work totally within Linux (Ubuntu)

My sincere thanks for all your assistance