No, you can’t. Really? Well, you could try to run it with wine… But if you check the latest releases, it’s really not supported… I tried various configurations, wine 1, wine-1.2, iTunes 8.x, iTunes 9.x… Nothing worked!  If you really have enough patience to figure out all of the “fix-me” messages in the wine log, good luck!

Ok, so what can I use instead? What is out there that that truly replaces iTunes?

Well, you will be really surprised by a project called Songbird (www.getsongbird.com). Check this out:

Screenshot of Songbird 1.2

It’s sleek, easy to use and can be customized by tons of plugins…

Installation Instructions for Ubuntu Linux (and similar flavours):

Unfortunately Songbird is not yet available under the “Ubuntu Software Center” or thru Synaptic/Apt-get, so you have basically two options:

1. Download the latest .tar.gz file from the main website (www.getsongbird.com), manually unzip and run the executable file, or,
2. (Recommended Solution): Use this installer (.deb) created by Eric: http://skyzim.com/songbird-1-2-0-installer/

The installation works like a charm, it even creates the proper menu entry under Application -> Sound & Video. Thanks Eric!

Welcome to the Songbird community!