As of late the Apple iPhones and iPods have worked flawlessly in Ubuntu out-of-the-box. However, if you’ve upgraded your firmware to 4.2.x and tried it in Ubuntu 11, you’ll get a nasty message about being unable to mount.

To fix this, add the following repo to your sources so we can install a few updates:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

sudo apt-get update

Followed by…

sudo apt-get install ifuse libimobiledevice2 libimobiledevice-dev python-imobiledevice

Plug your iPhone in, and you should be gtg!

Quick Update: libimobiledevice1 has been replaced with libimobiledevice2. Thanks to crowdtube.tv for the heads-up.

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As it turns out, the Sun Java JRE doesn’t exist in the Natty Narwhal Partner repo’s just yet. With some helpful advice on #ubuntu+1 (Freenode), this got everything up and working…
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A couple days ago I hooked my laptop up to my now old (but still bulletproof) HP Deskjet 6122 to print out a new insurance card before I ran out the door. In a world of smartphones that can hold any list, display driving directions and instantly store or retrieve just about anything else you’d want, I just don’t print much anymore. So what I got was an unreadable streaky mess… a sure sign of dried ink cartridge heads. Continued…