Comment 18 for bug 946799

@High Tech:
I'm happy to post anything useful, but am not sure precisely what you need. I have been compiling the program in /usr/local/src/gtkpod-2.1.2versionxxx (running the commands (all sudo): ./configure, then make, then make install). Compressing the directory gives a tarball of around 15MB, which I attach. If you need another version, or something else, let me know. I have compiled all the recent releases, and am using the version from June 12th. It crashes not infrequently, but this could be due to the fact that I only now have got the internal player working (based on Gnome Player, which was previously missing from my system), and so could well be the culprit.

The instructions I followed for preparing my system for the compiling were from:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
and
http://gtkpod.wikispaces.com/Compiling+and+Installing
and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingSoftware

I had trouble working out which dependencies were needed for the various plugins, but have finally managed to get most working. I was not able to do a successful 'checkinstall', to create a .deb package.

As pointed out in an earlier post, I'm far from being an expert at this, but have simply persevered out of the need to get my iPod up and running again!