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Offline neil

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Could not open ipod: permission denied
« on: April 06, 2013, 06:29:59 PM »
Hi

I'm trying to install via the Rockbox utility. At the 'install' stage I'm getting an error message “Could not open Ipod: permission denied”. I understand I need to get permission by using sudo or by logging in as root... but I don't know how to do this. :-[

Could someone talk me through what is needed.

Thanks in advance.

Neil
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Offline neil

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Re: Could not open ipod: permission denied
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2013, 04:54:51 PM »
I case anyone else is interested, I ended up installing the .deb here:

http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/www.getdeb.net/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/r/rbutil/rbutil_1.3.1-1~getdeb1_i386.deb

and then used 'gksudo RockboxUtility'

This worked fine, the mountpoint was detected automatically and the install was successful.
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Offline bluebrother

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Re: Could not open ipod: permission denied
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2013, 06:04:46 PM »
Quote from: neil on April 07, 2013, 04:54:51 PM
and then used 'gksudo RockboxUtility'

It works the same way with the binary we provide. If there's still a problem for you you need to be more specific.
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