Connecting a Ubuntu 12:04 PC to a Kindle Fire 8.9 HD

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Having recently bought a Kindle Fire 8.9 HD.
I would like to use Ubuntu to do my file transfers via the USB
My desk top is old so am still using 12:04 as I am warned that there may be hardware compatability issues when I try to upgrade.

I have looked at other posts on line and this is the one that seems to make sence to me.

Open Terminal: Use following commands one by one:

cd Downloads
tar xvzf libmtp-1.1.5.tar.gz
cd libmtp-1.1.5
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Then:

sudo apt-get install gmtp

Connect the Kindle Fire to your computer with a USB.
Now open gMTP by searching it in Unity dash:

Can someone please give me some confidence that this will indeed enable me to connect my kindle to Ubuntu via USB.

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What happens if you just run this without any of the other stuff:

sudo apt-get install gmtp

It should pull in the dependencies it needs without having to compile anything.

By the way, you’ve missed the first step in the compiling bit - actually downloading the tar file for libmtp :wink:

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As chemicalfan suggests, your posting shows 2 methods of installing gmtp (the first is commpiling gmtp from source code, the second is installing a pre-compiled package from the Ubuntu repositories) … the second being by FAR the easiest

sudo apt-get install gmtp

Can’t say if gmtp will definitely allow the kindle to work with 12.04 … but installing it in that manner is easily undoable, so can’t hurt to try.

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