iTunes, LinuxMint, and Wine?

[leaning69]

Hello!

(I posted this question to the LinuxMint forum http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=106436, but they suggested I might have better luck here.)

New to Linux. Trying to get iTunes64 installed and running correctly.

I right-click the itunes64setup.exe file in the Downloads folder, and select "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader". It works its way through the install, but...

I keep getting the following errors:
"iTunes: iTunes was not properly installed. If you wish to import or burn CDs, you need to reinstall ITunes"
"Wine program crash:Internal errors -invalid parameters received."

Re-installs produce the same errors.

Anyone have any experience in getting this to install cleanly and work right?

I appreciate the help!

leaning69

[dimesio]

I keep getting the following errors:
"iTunes: iTunes was not properly installed. If you wish to import or burn CDs, you need to reinstall ITunes"
"Wine program crash:Internal errors -invalid parameters received."

Known bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27943

[leaning69]

Dimesio,

Thanks! It appears this has been around for at least a year (reported Jul 2011). It also looks like it is centered around the 64-bit program. I am going to delete the 64-bit version, install the 32-bit, and see what happens.

(Please let me know if there is a bug-list for the 32-bit version.). Thanks!

leaning69

[DanKegel]

See
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=itunes
and
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1347

It generally doesn't work well enough to use, if at all.
(I did buy a song with it once, but that was many versions ago.)

[leaning69]

Dan,

Thanks for the info!

Here's my progress:

1. I downloaded 32-bit iTunes 10, but it wouldn't install. (Installer wouldn't put the 32-bit application on a 64-bit system.)

2. I downloaded PlayonLinux, opened it, and clicked the "Install" tab to get a list of supported applications.

3. I typed in "iTunes" and selected iTunes 7 (Version 7 is reportedly more Linux-friendly than iTunes 10.)

4. iTunes 7 is downloading now. I'll update how the install goes.

Respectfully,

John

[dimesio]

You can create a pure 32 bit wineprefix with WINEARCH=win32 for apps that don't like Wine's WoW64.

[leaning69]

Well,

No matter if I use Wine or PlayonLinux, and no matter what version of iTunes I install (I went back to v7 and worked up to 10.6. The least buggiest I have found so far is 10.3.1 x64.), I can't get a single version to install and operate error-free.

And all this without yet connecting an mp3 player

Common errors:

"If you wish to import or burn a CD, you need to reinstall iTunes."
"Bonjour service not installed." (even though it did.)
"A required iTunes component is not installed (-42404)"
"Accessing iTunes store..."(continuously).
Errors when you shut down the program.

<Grrr>.

If anyone has a solution, I'm all ears.

Respectfully,

leaning69

[dimesio]

And all this without yet connecting an mp3 player

If you're doing all this on the expectation that you will be able to use iTunes to sync to an iPod, don't bother. That has never worked.