[Solved] Using iPod Nano

Meowtopia · 2018-12-30 16:20:20

I have an iPod nano 7th gen I want to use but it seems I cannot install gtkpod with yaourt getting a crazy and repeating terminal, and cannot use the pacman -U for the tar.gz as it says cannot edit pkgbuild file. I also cannot download any other applications with yaourt such as nightingale or banshee. What is the best way to go about using an apple on linux? Also, I have looked at many wikis and they do not make very much sense to me and do not work out for me. Thank you, your help is greatly appreciated.

Also is using macos in virtual box itunes a good alternative? I also cannot get that working.

Last edited by Meowtopia (2019-01-01 01:13:39)

ewaller · 2018-12-30 16:54:50

First, welcome to the Arch Linux forums

Second. Do everyone a favor and uninstall yaourt. Now. Don't worry we will wait....

Okay. I just built it here using

git clone [url]https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkpod[/url]
cd gtkpod
makepkg

Okay, it actually did fail as I did not have all of the dependencies installed, It told me which ones so I installed them with pacman and reran makepkg
This time it worked perfectly. About a minute or two of compiling and I had a package which I installed with pacman -U
Ran gtkpod and the GUI popped up.

Learn how to do this the right way. Study this article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository
After you learn how to fly by hand, you might (might) consider an AUR helper: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository
I suggest, if you must use one, select one that does not have so much red in the comparison tables of that article.

Also, you need to provide us explicit data, not casual observations. We need the exact commands you ran and the actual program output. Read the article linked in my signature.
And finally, I am curious as to what motivated to try Yaourt in the first place; I am working on a conspiracy theory that someone or some group is actively trying to sabotage new Arch Linux users.

Edit: We will be more than happy to help you if you run in to issues doing the supported ways which I have pointed you towards

Last edited by ewaller (2018-12-30 16:57:13)

Meowtopia · 2018-12-30 17:20:08

I am just wondering, to install the dependencies did you use the $ makepkg -si command, where -s is installing the dependencies? Where can I find the dependencies that I have to manually install? Are they the listings where the terminal constantly repeats itself saying that they are deprecated?

After some time the package finally installed for some reason. Is it normal for the terminal to just constantly repeat itself and in the future should I just wait it out?

Thank you for the help and I just read many articles with people saying how important yaourt is.

Last edited by Meowtopia (2018-12-30 17:23:39)

ewaller · 2018-12-30 17:26:28

I did not use the -si switches. I just ran makepkg and the error messages told me that I had missing dependencies and it listed them. I checked all three, and they were all in the official repositories, so I merely installed them with pacman then re-ran makepkg.

How long did you wait before you gave up? It was a fairly long compile. And there were a lot of modules that look similar and occur one after the other -- I am guessing there were a couple dozen modules. And, there were warnings from the C compiler about deprecated methods, but no errors.

Meowtopia · 2018-12-30 17:32:53

Ah ok I see what I did wrong I waited about 2-3 minutes thank you so much you were very helpful. Also I will not use yaourt anymore.

Trilby · 2018-12-30 17:35:16

Meowtopia wrote:

Is it normal for the terminal to just constantly repeat itself...

Again, post *actual* output. I suspect what you are seeing is not actual repeats, just many similar steps running in sequence. This is common with large builds: many different source files are passed to the compiler with very similar flags/options. And in cases where there are compiler warnings, there is a good chance that the same warning could be given in response to each compiler command.

Last edited by Trilby (2018-12-30 17:36:22)

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