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Itunes u linux9/20/2023 ![]() On my system I did not face any dependency issue, however, it is possible they might crop up owing to not using apt-get/aptitude for installation, in case tunesviewer asks for library missing from the system, you would have to install it from the repository. Once you have downloaded TunesViewer, you can install it by issuing the following command in the terminal window ( Assuming name of the file you have downloaded is tunesviewer_1.2.deb, and you have changed working directory to directory where you have downloaded this file ). ![]() TunesViewer is not available in the repository and hence you would need to go to the following site and download tunes viewer.Ĭlick here to go to TunesViewer home page. TunesViewer is written using pyGTK and is available in both rpm and deb packages, thus allowing you to install it easily on debian based distributions like Ubuntu or rpm based distributions like fedora. TunesViewer is open-source pyGtk based application that parses XML files that iTunes generates and allows you to browse iTunes U and download podcasts ( I am not sure about legality of downloading from iTunes U, would love to hear about it). I had option of installing iTunes under Wine or using an application called TunesViewer, I decided to use native application approach and decided to give TunesViewer a try. I have been following UC Berkeley's webcast for some time, I have thoroughly enjoyed some of their CS courses - for instance Operating Systems, Data Structures and related to signal processing, however, they recently shifted to iTunes U and I was forced to look for alternatives for iTunes to access these files again. I own iPod Classic, I have Rockbox running on it and hence I have never worried about iTunes being not available on GNU/Linux and this never forced me into looking for viable alternatives. ![]() I am no Apple fanboy, I admire thought process they put in designing their products, but there are many things that I dislike about Apple, and not supporting GNU/Linux is one of them. The list of vendors that support Linux has grown, there are companies that are funneling in money for development of device driver for Linux, to companies releasing their products on GNU/Linux platform as well. This is not too nice, but at least it allows me to view iTunes U courses without the need for an operating system I do not own.Over the years Linux has evolved from an operating system used by hackers and primarily used on servers, to being recognized as a viable alternative to popular proprietary operating systems on Desktop, the growth of Android, which is infact based on GNU/Linux has only made the case even stronger. To circumvent this, I just download the respective courses and view them with mplayer: cd ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/iTunes U/ Unfortunately, with most of the available courses on iTunes University, I get conversion errors. To start iTunes later on, it is sufficient to run the following command: wine c:/Program\ Files/iTunes/iTunes.exe In the end, I could install a 32bit version by doing the following: rm -rf ~/.wine #(don't do this if you have other wine applications installed, it basically kills any previous wine installation) It is quite easy to get some old version of iTunes from but trying to install it on a 64bit machine with wine always failed. In order to use iTunes University, I had to install iTunes on my notebook that is running openSUSE 11.4.
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