REVERT TO CONSOLE

A colleague recently pointed me to an article about syncing my ipod with a Linux box. The article is good but my experience getting this to work was sufficiently different enough to warrant another post.

My first issue came with Step 1:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

This issue I had was that the keyserver was down. This may not always be a problem, but based on a few google searches it’s hardly an uncommon problem.
I found my solution with this article:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/PPA_NAME/ppa/ubuntu UBUNTU_VERSION main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys XXXXXXX

My next issue was with Step 2:

sudo apt-get install gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-fuse libgvfscommon0 ifuse libgpod-dev libgpod-common libiphone-utils libiphone0 python-iphone libplist++1 libplist-utils python-plist libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev libusbmuxd1 usbmuxd

I replaced libiphone-utils with libimobiledevice-utils, and removed python-iphone from the list.

And lastly, Step 5:
I created /mnt/ipod

mkdir -p /mnt/ipod

and made it sufficiently writable. I did not need to do anything else in this step!