How to Install iTunes 7.2 in Linux

September 19th, 2007 · Posted by Toor · 16 Comments

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

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16 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??

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