Install Itunes Linux Mint 16 Requirements
Good News for the Linux Mint users is that the latest version of Linux Mint 18 along with Cinnamon and Mate desktop environment has been released on 30th June 2016. Code name for Linux Mint 18 is “Sarah” and it is released under Long Term Support(LTS) and will get support until 2021. Some of the new features noticed in Linux Mint 18 are listed below :
- Linux Mint 18 released with two Desktop Environments : Cinnamon and Mate
- Latest version of Cinnamon Desktop “3.0”
- New Kernel Version 4.4
- Introduction of X-Apps which will allow users to use applications which are based on traditional GTK desktop.
- Improved Xed(default text editor) and Xviewer (Image viewer)
- Xreader – PDF and document viewer software.
- Xplayer – Default multimedia player based on Totem
- Improved Artwork (default theme)
Like what many others have said before, use wine (sudo apt-get install wine, if you are using Ubuntu), it has been tested for the following distro: WineHQ - iTunes 10.x And for other version of iTunes see here (11 and 12): WineHQ - iTunes So as yo. Install iTunes on Linux Mint 16. Editions for Linux Mint 16 'Petra' Edition Cinnamon (32-bit) Cinnamon. Linux Mint is free of charge (thanks to your donations and adverts on the website). ITunes in Ubuntu Linux. System: Linux Mint 17.2. Here's how you can install it in. Install aTunes audio player in Linux Mint 17. Linux Mint saved the day for an Ubuntu 16. How do I install iTunes in my Linux. Linux Mint is one of the most popular Linux distribution. Mostly advanced Linux users including LinuxAndUbuntu, it is always suggested to start with Linux Mint. So those who are newbies or thinking to use Linux Mint, here is a complete tutorial on how to install Linux Mint from USB and CD/DVD.
In this article we will walk through “Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon” installation steps along with the screen shots.
System requirements to Install Linux Mint 18
- Minimum of 512 MB RAM though recommended size is 1 GB
- Minimum of 9 GB of Disk Space to install OS though 20 GB is recommended
Step:1 Download Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon ISO file.
Download the ISO file of Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon (32-bit / 64-bit) depending on your system architecture from the official site:
Burn the downloaded ISO file either into USB or DVD to make the bootable media
Step:2 Boot your System with Bootable Media (USB or DVD)
Click on Install Linux Mint
Step:3 Select the Language as per your setup
Select the language which will be used during the installation.
Click on Continue to proceed further
Step:4 Install third party software like Multimedia, flash and Wi-Fi Drivers.
In case your system is connected to Internet then you should select option to install third party software.
Click on Continue….
Step:5 Select the Installation type
In this step select the installation as per the requirement. If you want install OS with the default partition table then select the first option “Erase disk and Install Linux Mint”
If you want to encrypt the disk during installation and want LVM based partitions then select second and third option.
If you want to create your own customize partition scheme, then select the last option “Something else”. In this tutorial i will be creating my own customize partition scheme.
Click on Continue..
Step:6 Create Customize Partition table as per disk size.
In my case I have around 42 GB disk space for the OS installation and will create following partitions.
- /boot = 500 MB (ext4 file system)
- /boot/efi = 200 MB (This partition is required when your system has UEFI firmware)
- /home = 15 GB (ext4 file system)
- /var = 10 GB (ext4 file syste)
- Swap = 4 GB (Size of swap is usually double of physical RAM)
- / = 12 GB (ext4 file system)
Click on “New Partition Table” option
Select the Disk and click on plus symbol “+” to start creating partitions.
Create /boot partition of size 500 MB
Click on Ok
Create /home partition of 15 GB
Create /var partition of size 10 GB
Create swap partition of size of 4 GB
Create Slash (/) partition of size 12GB
Click on Ok.
Click on “Install Now” option
Click on Continue to accept the disk changes
Step:7 Select the Location as per your setup.
Click on Continue
Step:8 Select the Keyboard Layout as per your setup
Click on Continue
Step:9 Specify the User Name and Host name for your system.
Mentioned the host name for your machine and user name and its password. We will be using this user name to login to the system after the installation.
Click on continue to start the installation.
Step:10 Linux Mint 18 Installation is in progress.
As we can see below that Installation is in progress. Installer will prompt us to restart the system once the installation is completed.
Restart the system
Step:11 Login Screen of Linux Mint 18
Use the user name and password that we created in above steps
That’s all, installation of Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon is completed.Now explore Linux Mint 18 and have fun 🙂
Install Itunes On Linux
| Trying to run iTunes with Wine, i faced various problems. Here is a working solution how to install iTunes on Debian-based systems (in my case Linux Mint 18.1) - with support for the iTunes Store. Warning: Syncing i-devices is still not possible. |
| When installing it with the playonlinux-'iTunes 12'-script, log in into the Store was not possible in my case. Wine showed the follwing error when trying to log in: SecurityContext failed with error 0x80090304 |
| 1. Install current Wine version (2.0.1) directly from the winehq repository |
| wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key |
| sudo apt-key add Release.key |
| sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main' |
| sudo apt-get update |
| sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable |
| wine --version |
| 2. Create a new 32 bit wineprefix (if you are doing this on a 64 bit system) and set windows version |
| WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine32 WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot |
| WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine32 WINEARCH=win32 wine winecfg |
| Set Windows Version to Windows 7 or newer |
| 3. Download the newest winetricks |
| sudo apt-get remove winetricks |
| wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks |
| chmod +x winetricks |
| sudo mv -v winetricks /usr/local/bin |
| 4. Install gdiplus library using winetricks |
| WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine32 winetricks |
| Standard wineprefix > install Windows DLL > gdiplus > OK |
| 5. Download iTunes Version 12.1.3 - 32 bit and install it (version is important!) |
| https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1614?locale=de_DE |
| cd /home/user/Downloads |
| WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine32 wine iTunesSetup.exe |
| Follow the setup, anwer the AutoRun Question with NO. |
| 6. Start it. It may crashes the first time, just start it again. Now you should be able to use iTunes and log in to the iTunes Store and download and play your purchased music and videos! |
| Start from command line: |
| cd /home/user/.wine32/drive_c/Program Files/iTunes/ |
| WINEPREFIX='/home/user/.wine32' wine iTunes.exe |
commented Jan 28, 2018
Thanks for the gist, I had a little trouble with this, but I managed to make it work from the info you gave. $ wget --no-proxy -c https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/F/0AFB5316-3062-494A-AB78-7FB0D4461357/windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe $ cp -p windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe ~/.cache/winetricks/win7sp1/windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe Once I did the cp -p of the downloaded file, I ran winetricks again and it found the downloaded file and did it's magic. I also downloaded the latest 32 bit iTunesSetup.exe -- Help -> About iTunes won't show the version, but it was 12.7.3.46 (downloaded 32 bit iTunes as at 20180129). 2FA wouldn't work, so I disabled that and then I could login to iTunes okay. Thank you! |
commented Dec 2, 2018
This works for me, too. But as per @affinityv's reply, 2FA wouldn't work. But now turning 2FA off is not possible. Not sure if anyone has ran into a solution? |
Linux Mint 19 Requirements
commented Dec 29, 2018
FYI, for those of us who just want apple music to work on linux Apple music released a development kit |