« Moving Blog Software – Serendipity to Wordpress
Snow, Snow, Everywhere… »

Synce-gnomevfs Install on Ubuntu

Ubuntu (Linux distribution)Image from Wikipedia

Windows MobileImage from Wikipedia

Yesterday I tried to install the latest version of synce in order to get Jem’s Dad’s Windows Mobile 6 phone to share files with Linux (Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon in this case). After managing to get the software installed, I have been very impressed with it, however actually installing it was a bit of a challenge, though the solution is quite simple and I share it with you now.

  1. Uninstall everything synce related before starting.
  2. Follow the Synce with Ubuntu instructions.
  3. pls should work at this time.
  4. Follow the SynceVfs instructions.
    Use ./configure –prefix=/usr
    make; sudo make install
  5. Heres the important bit:
    cp /usr/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/synce-module.conf /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/
  6. killall gnome-vfs-daemon

I think that you can do step 5 alternatively by adding –sysconfdir=/etc to your ./configure command in step 4, however I have not tested this.

Once this is done you should be able to just plug your phone (or other Windows Mobile device) in to the USB, and type synce:/// into Nautilus’ address bar. Simple!

Tags: , , , ,

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 2:06 pm by Benjie and is filed under Code, Computers, Hardware, Linux, Personal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Bookmark and Share

One Response to “Synce-gnomevfs Install on Ubuntu”

  1. Wim Vandersmissen Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    You could also add the following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list :
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/synce/ubuntu gutsy main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/synce/ubuntu gutsy main

    Update your repo’s afterwards using sudo apt-get update.

    And then just install the synce-gnomevfs package (sudo apt-get install synce-gnomevfs) :p.

Leave a Reply