Installer 2

From iPodLinux

A new installer is currently in development for Linux and Windows (WinPods only). It will only work on supported iPods. Check Project Status page to see if your iPod is supported. The installer is written using Qt.

The new installer was made possible by the rawpod library; it basically throws its own device system on top of the raw iPod device, so it can partition, format, read and write files to the ext2 partition, etc.

Download iPodLinux Installer			Windows Installer 2.3 for Windows XP.
	Linux Installer 2.2 for Linux.		Mac OS X Installer 2 doesn't exist for Mac OS X. Please use the manual installation instuctions instead
See also: Installation Instructions.

Packages

The installer manages your installation as a set of "packages"; each one is just a tar.gz archive that gets extracted into the iPodLinux partition, but the installer remembers what packages are installed and what files they contain, so you can remove and upgrade packages easily. A package might be the userland, a podzilla, a pz2 module, iBoy, etc; pretty much anything that works on iPodLinux.

Packages are managed almost completely over the Internet. The installer starts by reading the package list at iPodLinux:Installation sources. It offers for selection any packages listed there, along with any listed in package lists referenced by the master one. Dependencies are handled automatically, along with packages that only support certain iPods.

Package maintainers and developers: If you want to get your package onto the master list so it is selectable by users of the installer, please leave a note on iPodLinux talk:Installation sources under the appropriate section. If you maintain multiple packages, you may make a package list yourself that will be referenced in the main one. Regardless, you must have a place to permanently host the files you want to offer.

Important Notes

• For the "improved" revision of 5th Generation iPods (5.5G), Installer 2 will not work. The reasoning is just lack of interest/time/effort. Patches are welcome.
• The current Installer 2 release will encounter a few problems if you are using the latest firmware from iTunes. If you have difficulties installing (e.g. Installer 2 does not detect your iPod), use the development builds below or try installing things manually.

• Debian/Ubuntu users must install the libpng3 and libssl0.9.8 libraries (apt-get install libpng3 libssl0.9.8) before attempting to run the installer as it is not installed by default.
• Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) users (and possibly those using < Ubuntu 6.06 or other linux distributions) should be aware that the usb controller may not be working correctly.
  If you are experiencing problems ejecting your iPod, this installer and any manual installation procedure will not work! However, it is known that Edgy Eft (6.10) has a fully functioning usb controller (that ejects iPods correctly).

Download

Platform	Architecture	Version	Link	Packages date	Networkless
Windows	x86	2.3w	zip	2007-01-07	netless zip
Linux	x86	2.3l	tar.gz	2006-07-09	netless tar.gz
Linux	amd64	2.3lx	tar.gz	2007-01-07	netless tar.gz

Current SVN Builds

The above Installer 2 binaries have several bugs. If you have problems with them, try using the latest SVN development builds found here (for Windows x86 and Linux x86) or here (for Linux amd64). Keep in mind that these are unreleased development builds and still may have a few bugs needing to be fixed (see below).

Known Issues in SVN Builds

• The installer may crash if you keep "Yes, I want to create a backup" checked. If this happens, re-run the installer but un-check that options.
• Due to some odd package selection mechanism, you need to check "Advanced partitioning and package selection" on the second screen and check "podzilla2" under the "User Interface" category.
  Otherwise you will get a "No more tasks for init -- sleeping forever" problem during boot-up.

Patches are welcome.

If you use the installer, and it works, or it fails and you know enough to be able to say what fails, please add a row to the table on this page.

ChangeLog

Version 2.3: January 7, 2007

• Bugfixes galore.
• Cache support; massive speedups.
• Command-line options for various automations.
• Partition handling expanded; might possibly be able to support MacPods in the future.
• Package selection system is rather more intuitive and "nicer".
• Robustness improvements. Package removals won't remove files owned by other packages.

Version 2.2: May 28, 2006

• Same as 2.2b2.

Version 2.2b2: May 18, 2006

• Fix a few relative path bugs with local installs.
• Support for networkless installs!
• Allow the saving of package lists and "which-packages-are-selected" info.
• Allow in-installer modification of package metadata (double-click on the package name).
• Running the installer with a package list as an argument will make it install using that package list instead of fetching the one on this site.
• Many bugfixes.

Version 2.2b1: May 14, 2006

• Cooperate better with existing iPodLinux installations.
• Don't save the retailos image as "aple" on Loader2 iPods. It caused a retailos freeze.
• Change the Loader2 kernel image name on the firmware partition to linx, not lnux, for compatibility with tempel's latest changes.
• Don't clip partition size to [0, 99] at first.

Version 2.1.1: April 26, 2006

• Don't redownload files if they haven't changed.
• Support loading package lists from disk.
• Default backup name changed to end with .fw
• Fixed a bug in make_fw2 that led to problems on 3Gs.
• Allocate globals in the main thread.
• Fix a rather debilitating bug in package downloading in 2.1.

Version 2.1: April 21, 2006

• Added an option to restore a backup even if something's messed up with the SysInfo file.
• Fixed rounding of the iPod's size.
• Miscellaneous code cleanups.
• Added categories to the package list format.
• Fix for a '/bin/podzilla not found' error
• Various other bugfixes against 2.0.

Version 2.0: April 8, 2006

• First working release.

Linux Self-extracting Archives

These packages are self-extracting archives which, when run, installs the installer2 binary to /opt/iPodLinux and also installs a kde/gnome/freedesktop .desktop file/icon for easy launching of the installer.

Linux x86 (32bit)

% gunzip /tmp/ipodlinux-installer-2.2l.run.gz
% chmod +x /tmp/ipodlinux-installer-2.2l.run
% /tmp/ipodlinux-installer-2.2l.run
% /opt/iPodLinux/installer     (or use the icon)

Linux amd64 (64bit)

% gunzip /tmp/ipodlinux-installer-2.2lx.run.gz
% chmod +x /tmp/ipodlinux-installer-2.2lx.run
% /tmp/ipodlinux-installer-2.2lx.run
% /opt/iPodLinux/installer     (or use the icon)

Source

% svn co https://ipodlinux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ipodlinux/apps/desktop/installer2/

See the Building Installer page for instructions.

¹Requires: gcc>=3.4.2, qt>=4.0.1

²To make the installer run as root instead of the user that started the installer 'chmod u+s installer'.

It's installed - what now?

See the Installation page.