Installation of gtkpod

iDog

2006.01.18

Prerequisite Software

Of course you should have a C++ development environment set up!

gtkpod requires following libs:

• libid3tag
• libmp4v2 - This lib is definitely required, no matter you use AAC files or not, otherwise some iPod specific files cannot be parsed.
• libgpod - download it from the homepage of gtkpod

Build procedure

libid2tag

Download & unpack it, cd to that dir; then execute following commands:

./configure
make
make install

libmp4v2

Download & unpack it, cd to that dir; then execute following commands:

./bootstrap --disable-server
make
make install

libgpod

Download & unpack it, cd to that dir; then execute following commands:

./configure
make
make install

gtkpod

Download & unpack it, cd to that dir; then execute following commands:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/root/work/gtkpod/libgpod-0.3.0
./configure
make
make install

Now it's done. do following to launch it:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
gtkpod