Is there a way to run the Nokia PC suite on UBUNTU 9.10????? With Wine It installs but Cannot Detect the connected mobile????

Unfortunately it will not work under wine. The closest I was able to get to synchronize my contacts was with gnokii, but it synchronizes only one phone number per contact. What kind of Phone you have?

Best,
ScienTux

You might want to try this:

https://launchpad.net/nokinux

Its supposed to be a Linux flavor of the PC Suite. Haven't tried it myself. Let me know if it works for you.

Cheers, Lou

I run PC Suite on Windows XP running in a VirtualBox virtual machine on a Linux host.

It says "Our goal is the easy configuration of your Nokia mobile phone on platform GNU/Linux". "Easy configuration" is some way short of full PC Suite functionality ... ?

It would be so good to find a replacement for PC Suite, because it is the only reason I have to run Windows. I'd help with development if there was a project headed in the right direction but mostly there are only "point solutions" offering small subsets of the full PC Suite functionality

Thanks catkin. Guess I'll save myself some time and not bother with it.

Lou

Thanks catkin. Guess I'll save myself some time and not bother with it.

Lou

I happen to have nokia "N70 music edition".The pc suite is Installed but The get connected Wizard Stops right after an error.Should I report it to
http://bugs.wine.org

Only if PC Suite is a supported application under Wine which it seems not to be.

The PC Suite devs have said that there could be a Linux version at some point in the future, but there is no ETA on this or anything more concrete.

Thanks XavierP

And I could have jam for tea -- or I might not! On the face of it the statement from the PC Suite devs has no value; like a politician "taking notice" of a question or agreeing to "seriously consider" an issue.

PC Suite being the only reason I need to run Windows, I'd help with developing a Linux/FOSS alternative but there are no obvious leading contenders amongst the several "point solutions" that provide a part of PC Suite's functionality; I'm still waiting (ha!) for an answer to my 9th LQ thread, Which Linux to cell phone integration software to help develop?

Reading between the lines of PC Suite's model-specific support and the limited hardware support of the various "point solutions", the software/phone interface is not consistent. If nokia's developers, presumably with access to detailed information about nokia's proprietary interfaces, have had such a hard time of it then independent developers without such access would have a much harder time. Oh, for open-standards compliant interfaces!

True. Are you after the full suite of tools, or just to transfer music/videos/files? If the latter, this can be done without the suite.

No, the key features I use are transferring contacts, calendar and notes; by keeping the master copies on the computer it is easily backed up and synchronised between devices. Of lesser importance is being able to compose text messages on the computer.

EDIT: thanks!

The Wine site states that PC suite is uninstallable but i have installed it and only getting connectivity issues.<P>is there a way to do some thing about it???</P>

Necroposting with an update in case anyone finds this thread while looking for a solution.

Regards transferring contacts and calendar events from GNU/Linux computer (Thunderbird and Xfce's Orage calendar) to Nokia series 40 phone, I've got it working via gnokii and a couple of custom awk scripts. The awk scripts and usage instructions are in my LQ blog here and here.

It is a command line solution. If there is interest, it would be worth writing a GUI but this could not be as neat as Nokia's PC Suite because neither Thunderbird nor Orage support external programs getting them to export their data so at least those two steps have to be done manually for now.

An Orage enhancement request has been submitted, asking for programmatic export and one of the Orage developers commented "This is very good idea" so it might be implemented. For Thunderbird it may be practicable to convert the PAB data in abook.mab to LDIF but it is in the unpopular MORK format ...