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iphone & ubuntu 7.1?

By Ketan Zhaveri - May. 26, 2008

Can I sync my iPhone with my Ubuntu PC. I use Amarok to manage my music collection.

Having done some research many of the suggested methods to sync the iPhone require "jailbreaking it" to get access to the file system. I don't want to mod the iPhone in any way.


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  1. By an anonymous user on May. 26, 2008

    Try Wine but I'm not sure if it will work...


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  2. By an anonymous user on May. 26, 2008

    The jailbreaking process is safe and fast, requiring only a couple of software patches.


    If you REALLY don't want to do that, you could try running Windows through VMware.


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  3. By an anonymous user on May. 28, 2008

    Do you really want to jailbreak your iphone? With Virtual Machines where they currently are, you might be better off just getting VMware server on Ubuntu, or creating a windows XP virtual appliance and firing that up whenever you need to sync. Painful, I know, but you can continue to upgrade your iphone and not worry that it will become an expensive piece of desk-art, in case the next upgrade jacks it up.


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  4. By an anonymous user on Oct. 04, 2008

    i tryed an older itunes 7 with wine ubuntu 8 didnt work very well! monitor went black alot could not uninstal and would not update! iv only been looking how to sync iphone for a short while seeing i work two jobs! as for jailbreaking i would say go for it! it works even better is simple an fully restor if you dont like it! know apple they are going to make it a breach of there holy apple contract to use iphone with linux! fu** steve jobs


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