I backported the Gtkpod 0.99.12 for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

These packages have support for aac (Advanced Audio Codec). I also compiled it with the video support, which was not originally included in the binary version in Ubuntu. That’s why you also must install the libmp4v2 and the Mpeg4ip packages.You can download the needed files from the following list:

• faad_2.6-1_i386.deb
• gtkpod-aac_0.99.12-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
• libfaad0_2.6-1_i386.deb
• libfaad2-0_2.6-1_all.deb
• libmp4v2-0_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb
• libmpeg4ip-0_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb
• libmpeg4ip-dev_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb
• libmpeg4ip-doc_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_all.deb
• mpeg4ip-server_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb
• mpeg4ip-utils_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb

Update: you will also need the libgpod3 package, which is not available in Gutsy. You can download it packaged by Mario Limonciello in his PPA repository. Thanks Brian for signalling this missing.

Here you have also the dev files (you’ll need them only if you are going to build any software which has dependencies on Gtkpod, Faad or Mpeg4ip):

• libfaad-dev_2.6-1_i386.deb
• libmp4v2-dev_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb
• libmpeg4ip-dev_1.6dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb

Attention! Gtkpod 0.99.12 has still some issues:

• it will not automatically extract thumbnails from videos, but you can set them by hand;
• on the iPod Touch and the iPhone photo uploading is not working: photo are actually uploaded and listed but the iPod Touch/iPhone will not be able to show them.

To install the files just download them and install using dpkg. Assuming you downloaded to your desktop, type the following inside a terminal:


cd ~/Desktop
sudo dpkg -i *deb