iTunes is a media player. But it is only available for Windows and Mac OS X. You might want to use it in Linux. What should you do? You can use Wine. I have tested wine 0.9.45 and iTunes 7.2. It works perfectly.
Install and Configure Wine
You can get binary packages of Wine from here. For example, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) users can download deb package from here.
1. Install Wine:
sudo dpkg -i wine_0.9.45~winehq0~ubuntu~7.04-1_i386.deb
2. Configure Wine:
Run command in terminal:
winecfg
- In Applications tab, choose Windows XP option.
- In Drivers tab, click Autodetect button.
- In Audio tab, check ALSA Driver and uncheck OSS Driver.
Then click OK button.
Install iTunes
First, you have to download version 7.2 of iTunes. Then, run command:
wine iTunesSetup.exe
1. Welcome screen, click Next.
2. Accept license.
3. Choose installer options.
4. AutoRun option, click No button.
5. Installing.
6. Finish.
Run iTunes
To start iTunes, you can run command in terminal:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/iTunes/iTunes.exe
34 responses so far ↓
1 Brad // Sep 19, 2007 at 8:08 am
Very interesting…I have my ipod syncing pretty well so far with just gtkpod but this is completely tempting. Any issues pop up while using the program?
2 Dan Kegel // Sep 19, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Apple doesn’t offer 7.2 for download anymore.
Supposedly
http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.htm
has it but I haven’t checked to see if they’re kosher.
3 Luis // Sep 24, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Anyone know how to get the dock shown in the screenshot above on linux? And what’s it called?
4 toor // Sep 24, 2007 at 4:53 pm
@Luis: The dock is Avant Window Navigator.
5 phunkysai // Sep 26, 2007 at 9:47 am
It won’t let me install - at the last step right after clicking NO on the AutoRun pop-up, it says “iTunes requires Quicktime” and then won’t install because of that.
Any ideas?
6 Kevin // Sep 30, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Here is the 7.2 installer
http://filehippo.com/download_itunes/?2736
Also, I got it installed correctly, but when I run it the itunes.exe it gives a large number of errors in the terminal.
I am currently uninstalling and will reinstall and see how it goes…
I noticed in both times installing that when it updates the registry it take a while (acts like it’s frozen - LEAVE IT ALONE). It took for me between 45-60seconds before it moved.
After install, I tried running it again and got:
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0×10001040 at address 0×10001040 (thread 0032), starting debugger…
Plus a complete dump of stuff. (not posting)
I’ll try a reboot and see if it clears.
7 Kevin // Sep 30, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Well it’s not working. For everyone notes, I am running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (current updates) with Wine 0.9.46
I’m interested in seeing how everyone elses works. I think as a last resort I might remove wine completely and go with 0.9.45 as stated about.
Goodluck everyone - where one more step to making Linux a viable alternative to Micro$oft.
8 Scott // Sep 30, 2007 at 11:17 pm
It’s working for me with 0.9.46, running on gusty. Playback seems to work OK with regular mp3s. the iTunes music store did not work, I assume, because I have not installed IE (yet). I did not try an encrypted iTunes file.
9 Jimmy // Oct 29, 2007 at 5:48 pm
I too had to find the older version of iTunes, I had installed Wine, and as soon I clicked on the iTunes for download, wine took over. I am waiting to see if it is going install successfully.
10 Sandy // Nov 12, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Any It work iTunes 7.43, i got a problem says “iTunes require Quicktime”
11 Oren // Dec 2, 2007 at 8:54 pm
I’m having the same problem where as soon as I hit “no”, the installer fails and says that quicktime was not installed. Is there a fix to this?
12 Ran // Dec 6, 2007 at 1:17 pm
i have vista unable to install..pls suggest..Thanks
13 Amara // Jan 9, 2008 at 7:25 pm
When I go to install iTunes in wine it gets stuck. I am running ubuntu 6.06 dapper and am using the 0.9.52 deb for dapper. I get the following when I say ‘wine iTunesSetup.exe’:
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L”amara” (nil) 0×34eb84 (nil) 0×34eb7c 0×34eb80 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L”amara” 0×146900 0×34eb84 0×16d2c8 0×34eb7c 0×34eb80 - stub
It then gets stuck and doesn’t do anything. I waited for three or four minutes to see if it would do anything else and it didn’t.
14 Amara // Jan 9, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I just restarted my computer to see if that would fix it and it didn’t. It did show two new error messages before stopping though. Those errors are:
err:msi:call_script Could not find CLSID for Windows Script
err:msi:call_script Could not find CLSID for Windows Script
15 Duke // Apr 25, 2008 at 11:13 am
Yo. so i got itunes to come up and run normally. but my ipod does not sync. any ideas?
16 jen // May 9, 2008 at 7:25 am
I am getting stuck at installing the itunes (i’m new at linux, my uncle set me up and now i have this mystery in my lap) when i go to install it auto defaults to virus scanner. I have Ubuntu Fawn, and the latest wine how should i download this??
17 Peter // Sep 13, 2008 at 5:52 am
Heres another story about installing Itunes on linux, but its the 7.3 version:
http://www.wine-reviews.net/applications/itunes-73-on-linux-with-wine.html
18 Peter // Sep 13, 2008 at 5:53 am
Here you got Itunes 7.3(for win2000):
http://www.filehippo.com/download_itunes/tech/?2877
19 koolboy // Sep 16, 2008 at 7:01 pm
well thank you for the help sir it was very useful to many in many ways and now i have my itunes=p
and if u need to download itunes 7.2 just google it…
20 SQuiggle the Gamer // Nov 30, 2008 at 1:29 pm
THank you for posting this, I’m very new to linux and I’m just figuring this all out.
Its a definite learning curve.
Most how to guides go rightover my head at this point, so it was great to read through yours.
21 Tati // Dec 10, 2008 at 5:23 pm
How do i run the command?
22 Craig // Dec 14, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Any chance of running the latest itunes on ubuntu? I would like to sync my iphone 3g to itunes but dumped vista when it hung up on an update….
23 suresh // Jan 24, 2009 at 7:52 am
here i have problem while installing i Tunes.
wine: could not load L”C:\\windows\\system32\\iTunesSetup.exe”: Module not found
can anyone tell how to resolve this problem??
24 .....person // Mar 22, 2009 at 8:31 pm
hay people you can use the newest version of itunes 8
25 emorrison // Mar 23, 2009 at 4:50 am
I have the same problem as suresh.
26 Cam. // Mar 29, 2009 at 9:45 am
Hey guys. Got my iTunes installed using Wine 1.0.1. Tis a little laggy, however good. PS; Any chance i can sync songs and vids to my iPod using this iTunes? Cheers.
27 Cam. // Mar 29, 2009 at 9:47 am
Emorrison + Suresh READ THIS;
Instead of using that command, find the downloaded ‘iTunesSetup.exe’, right click on it, and say open with ‘wine’. ( Type wine into the box you see ).
28 Michael // Jun 4, 2009 at 1:09 pm
you can run itunes 8.2 on the proprietary version of vbox using xp by following these instructions exactly to the T i had a difficult time myself getting this to work with the other ose version of vbox. but i got itunes to finally load on the store and recognize my iphone doing this. You wont even have to reinstall windows on vbox to do this. Heres the site:
http://www.tuxguides.com/2009/05/07/virtualbox-with-usb-support/
29 Michael // Jun 4, 2009 at 1:13 pm
by the way anyone feel free to email me with any other exciting or helpful tips and tricks using ubuntu or vbox and maybe also tell me the best way to install dual boot ubuntu and windows (for itunes only) side by side with all the necessary drivers i need. The only problem is i never made a backup of anything when my windows crashed so i dont know exactly what drivers i need or what hardware i have on some things. is there a detection utility available to figure this out within vbox on windows? heres my email for any tips:
ihnab1@yahoo.com
30 Barry // Jun 9, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Ref #27 Cam’s post
I am having the same problem as Suresh and EMorrison.
When i right click and try to open with wine i get a pop up saying “Install Failed iTunes requires that your computer is running Windows Xp SP2 or newer”
This is my sisters laptop and i have no experience of Linux at all.
Any help is much appreciated and an email would be much welcomed.
31 Barry // Jun 10, 2009 at 1:35 am
Ok, so i got past the stage i was at above but when installing it is crashing when it tries to install quicktime as per the attached photo.
The laptop is an acer aspire one.
Any ideas why it crashes at this point?
And how do i resolve it?
Thanks.
32 Daniel // Jun 18, 2009 at 7:44 am
i canot seem to run the application in terminal. somebody help me
33 Daniel // Jun 18, 2009 at 7:54 am
also, when i try to download it says that quicktime player was not successfully installed, preventing itunes to download.
34 Steve // Jul 17, 2009 at 1:32 am
Not tried this yet but was just wondering if anyone had tried using this with the iphone and if they have what results they got?
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