Trouble Installing iTunes 10

[Binsky]

I have an iPhone and run Ubuntu on all of my personal computers. Since I did not want to keep a separate partition with Windows on it for the sole purpose of running iTunes, I attempted to install It using Wine. I installed Wine 1.4 from the Software Center and installed iTunes 10.6.3. When I tried to run it I got a slew of error messages. I hopped over to google where it was suggested that I install it through PlayOnLinux. I did so with the same result. Further googling revealed that iTunes 10.6.x is confirmed to work with Wine 1.5.1 and up. I installed Wine 1.5.1 following the instructions I found and was unable to get it to open. I did the same with 1.5.9 with the same results. I opened the Package Manager and installed the Wine 1.5.9 packages through it, and it appears to have installed properly. When trying to install iTunes I got he error "This iTunes installer requires Windows Vista 64 bit or later". Realizing that Wine uses XP as a default I ran winecfg and changed it to Windows 7. This changed nothing and I tried changing it through winetricks to no avail. I even changed it to Vista with the same results.

Does anyone know what is going wrong here and how to fix it? Thanks

[dimesio]

I don't know where you saw that iTunes 10.6.x was "confirmed to work" with Wine; AppDB reports all rate it bronze or garbage. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1347

[qparis]

iTunes 10.6 works somehow with wine

You can use the main feature (except usb), but you need to install the 32bits version. Moreover, you need to install gdiplus libs

[DanKegel]

But as far as I know, it can't talk to the iPhone or recent iPods without
a particular flavor of USB support, and wine doesn't have that yet.