As already mentioned in my last post, Ubuntu Gutsy does not come with a current version of libmtp which is required if you want to get your Creative Zen running with Linux. Luckily, it’s very easy to build new packages: just download the latest source from here and follow my [HOWTO]({% link _posts/2008-02-20-wbt-201-debian-ubuntu.markdown %}) on building new packages for gpsbabel - it works just the same. You’ll end up with four packages (libraries, development, documentation and tools). You’ll have to install at least libmtp6_0.2.6.1-1_<arch>.deb. Once your new package(s) is/are installed, you need to do one more thing though: when building the new package, we were updating from Ubuntus libmtp6, so the package is named “libmtp6…”, but what we actually have inside the package is libmtp7. Amarok expects /usr/lib/libmtp.so.6, but we now have /usr/lib/libmtp.so.7 (which is a symlink to libmtp.so.7.1.0). We do overcome this small issue very easily:

cd /usr/lib  
sudo  ln -s libmtp.so.7.1.0 libmtp.so.6

You may now run Amarok and start syncing your media files! (See some details [here]({% link _posts/2008-03-09-creative-zen-debian.markdown %}).)

If you don’t want to build the packages yourself, feel free to download them from here (build on Ubuntu Gutsy i386):