I’m sure it’s painfully aware how much I hate iPods by the amount of content on this page supporting the elimination of DRM. This post just goes to support that.

A friend of mine is having a problem with their iPod. The iTunes library decided to be an ass and get rid of most of their music. So they’re afraid of loosing what’s already on the iPod. So I’m installing Banshee for GNU/Linux as I know that it is able to easily download the songs off of an iPod. That way I can back up her music for her.

Great - but a slight problem. Podsleuth 0.6.1 fails to compile. It complains about not being able to find  gutils. So, for those of you having this problem, after much searching, I found this bug report:

 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233960

There exists an attachment to provide an ebuild for podsleuth 0.6.2 and a patch. Download it:

 http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=162367

Extract the contents into /usr/local/portage/dev-dotnet. You may need to create the directory. So, it should look like: /usr/local/portage/dev-dotnet/banshee. Placing it in here ensures it won’t be overwritten during an emerge –sync.

Now, if you don’t have a local repository set up, enter the following command to add it to your make.conf:

echo ‘PORTDIR_OVERLAY=”/usr/local/portage”‘ >> /etc/make.conf

Now, try to emerge banshee again and it should use podsleuth-0.6.2. All should be well.

Oh. And it’d better not be your iPod you need this for. Get rid of it, or install rockbox.

But, in the end, it didn’t work out. I had to end up using GTKpod to copy the files, because podsleuth was having trouble recognizing the iPod. So this post was just to provide information for those with similar problems and demonstrate how to solve them with the use of ebuilds and overlays.