I wanted to sync my ipod touch and was really astonished that ubuntu recognized the ipod out of box and i could play songs from the device right away. Trying to sync music from the pc to the pod created a pop-up-box per song stating: Error while getting peer-to-peer dbus connection. After some searching i found out that using gconf (apps->rhythmbox->plugins->ipod) and deactivating the ipod plugin actually makes it work (this, btw, was the wtf moment for me). I’d also like to share the comment of the person posting the solution:

I don’t know how or why it works, but this is true of most things I’ve learned about Linux.

I think there’s nothing more to add to that . . .

Willi

[followup]
Using my bluetooth headset i wanted to listen to music at work without the hassle of coping with cables. Setting up my Nokia BH-103 with a level one MDU-0005USB connected to the USB-port at my monitor worked out of the box. Then i added 2 cool plugins to rhythmbox as i’m rather fond of cover art:

http://code.google.com/p/albumartsearch/

http://nedrebo.org/code/rhythmbox/desktop_art/

This is it.

Ja verflucht , ich komm mir langsam vor wie bei Windows. Nur gut dass man es ändern kann, hier die Anleitung.

This would not be soo bad, if it wouldn’t fail after compiling (and by that wasting a lot of cpu time …).

To avoid this error, fix the file /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk

And replace this code

UTS_RELEASE_HEADER=$(call doit,if [ -f include/linux/utsrelease.h ]; then  \
	                       echo include/linux/utsrelease.h;            \
	                   else                                            \
                               echo include/linux/version.h ;              \
	                   fi)

with this one

UTS_RELEASE_HEADER=$(call doit,if [ -f include/generated/utsrelease.h ]; then \
                               echo include/generated/utsrelease.h;           \
                           elif [ -f include/linux/utsrelease.h ]; then       \
                               echo include/linux/utsrelease.h;               \
                           else                                               \
                               echo include/linux/version.h;                  \
                           fi)

(Source: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561569 )

trying to install the latest version of intel compilers cause some amount of trouble as you do not only need the old and now dropped version 5 of libstdc++ – you also need it for x86_64 and i386. Both packages are available from the jaunty (9.04) Version of Ubuntu – but both packages install to /usr/lib whereas on an 64bit system the 32bit version has to be installed to /usr/lib32. So the 32bit deb has to be installed “manually” – all the details are now available on an intel-site:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-intel-compilers-for-linux-with-ubuntu/

This small info was missing in the post here

Unter Ubuntu 9.10 ist die Installation etwas hagelig. Hier eine kleine Hilfestellung:

Es werden trotz Intel64 Installation noch einige 32bit libs benötigt

apt-get install lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libc6-dev-i386 gcc-multilib ia32-libs

Ubuntu 9.10 bringt nur noch die libstdc++6 mit es wird aber auch Version 5 gebraucht. Einen Symlink setzen funktioniert wegen der inkompatiblem API nicht.
Unter http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/libstdc++5 kann sowohl die 32 als auch die 64bit Version eines passenden Debian Pakets bezogen werden.
Installieren dann mit

dpkg -i libstdc++5_3.3.6-18_amd64.deb

sudo aptitude install googleearth-package
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
make-googleearth-package --force
sudo dpkg -i googleearth_*.deb
cd /usr/lib/googleearth/
sudo mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 wrong_libcrypto.so.0.9.8

The last part is necessary to avoid errors like this:

/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib32/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

As allways you have to be aware that googleearth is NOT open source and therefore evil

Oh and btw – if you are a KDE user try:

googleearth -style plastique

All the good gnome-user out there should rather use:

googleearth -style cleanlooks